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Title: Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Crofutt, George A
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Overland Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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CASTELLATED ROCKS, GREEN RIVER, WYOMING, (See Annex No. i6.) AND PACIFIC COxVST Gtji;)E. 17
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SIDNEY DILLON. Among the men of progress in Americathere will be found no name more dis-tinctly representative or more thoroughlyin unison with the spirit of the age, thanthat of Mr. Sidney Dillon, President ofthe Union Pacific railroad. Born in North-ampton, Montgomery county, New York,on the 7th of May, 1812, at which placehis father was a well-to-do farmer, hecame of sterling stock—his grandfatherhaving been a Revolutionary soldier. From early childhood his life has beenan active one, given almost wholly to theadvancement of the internal improvementsof his country. When a mere lad, he com-menced his railroad life as an errand boy,on the Mohawk & Hudson railroad—the first railroad built in his nativeState—running from Albany to Schenec-tady. (See Annex No. 7.) He nextentered the service of the Rensselaer& Saratoga—then we hear of him as over-seer of a contract on the Boston & Provi-dence, and several other roads. In 1838, hetook his first contract, and completed

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