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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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road, accommodates 150 guests,and is one of the most popular in the Sierras. One who lets the train go by, to climb tothe top of the ridge through which the tunnelleads, or some higher peak, will never be sorry,for an enchanting panorama will be unrolled. Summit Valley, with its bright pastures, andwarm with life, while it touches bleak rocks, andreceives the shade of the inhospitable pine orthe drip of the snow—one of the loveliest val-leys at such an altitude—lies toward the settingsun. In the rim that shuts out the south-westwind, towers the Devils Peak, a bold cliff risingfrom out of wild surroundings; and followingthe ridge eastward with the eye, and aroundtoward the point of vision, there are prominent,Old Mans Peak, just across the valley, sharp-ened by the wintry storms of his long life, andon the main ridge, Mount Lincoln, 9,200 feet high,and Donner Peak, 2,000 feet above the railroad,and 3.200 above the lake that sleeps in quiet beauty at its base; and across the railroad
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Donner Lake, from near Summit, Nevada.

230 the peak from which Bierstadt sketched the Gem beneath. Then there are a thousand other charms in the vast heights above, andvast depths below, in contrasts of light and shade, form and color, mists hanging over thelake, and clouds clinging to the peaks in thetwilight deepening into darkness, or in colossalpyres, kindled bvthe coming sun, and going inthe clear light of the day; or the gloom of theforest mingled with the living silver of the moon-lit lake. The peaksmay be ascend-ed— some withdifficulty, andsome with mod-erate exertion—but persons offeeble constitu-tion may enjoy all the variedcharms. The lake is ofeasy access, andhas on its banksa hotel for tour-ists. The dis-tance to the lakeby the carriageroad is 2 1-2miles, and TruckeejJ miles.The summit di-vides the watersthat flow eastand sink amiddesert sands,from those thatflow west intothe Sacramento river. Summit Valley,—2 1-2milts long andone mile wide,heads in thehigh peaks,south of the hotel. It has pasturage durin

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