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Title: Summer tours : season 1924
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Company Chicago and North Western Railway Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Dept. of Tours, Chicago Union Pacific & Northwestern Line
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s made by train. Unless you have bathed inthe Dead Sea of Palestine, you will not be prepared for the buoyancy and exhilaration ofthese waters. We leave Salt Lake City at 5.15 p.m. for Colorado, dining on the train. FIRST DAY, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK REGION(Ninth day en route) We arrive at Greeley, Colo., via Union Pacific System at 10.38 a.m. the ninth day.After luncheon at the Camfield Hotel we board the large, comfortable motor cars of theRocky Mountain Parks Transportation Company for the most popular of our nationalparks, where we spend the next three days. Our afternoon route is up the Big ThompsonCanyon, an auto highway ride which for magnificent heights and sheer depths is not equaledelsewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Turn at once to the frontispiece of this book andwitness the cameras verification of this statement. At 5.30 p.m. our motor cars are dueat the Estes Park Chalets, nestling in the foothills. Rocky Mountain National Park! North W e s t er n-Un ion Pacific Tours
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A section of Salt Lake City showing the Mormon Temple, Hotel Utah and theWasatch Mountains in background In nobility, in calm dignity, in glory of stalwart beauty, there is no mountain group toexcel the company of snow-capped veterans of all the ages which stands at everlasting paradebehind its grim, helmeted captain. Longs Peak. There is probably no other scenic neigh-borhood of the first order which combines mountain outlines so bold with a quality ofbeauty so intimate and refined. Just to live in the valleys in the eloquent and ever-changingpresence of these carved and tinted peaks is itself satisfaction. SECOND DAY, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK REGION (Tenth day en route) It is always desirable to rise early in Rocky Mountain National Park. From theChalets an ideal view of a glorious Rocky Mountain sunrise may be obtained, in itself wellworth a visit to this region. The day may be spent as one chooses. Some may wishto explore the mountains on foot, others to go farther on horsebac

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