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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ican Scenic Tour, we must ofcourse take in one of the Great Lakes, Niagara Falls,the Thousand Islands and Rapids of the St. Lawrence,Lakes Champlain and George, and the Hudson River, — X PREFACE. scenes which have been too often described to betouched upon here. I have seen parts of four conti-nents, but am still looking for a tour equal to the oneoutlined in this volume with the addition just named.It includes the grandest water-falls, the largest hikes,the finest river scenery and geysers, the most stupen-dous glaciers, and some of the most superb snow-peaksand ranges in the whole world; while the Yosemiteand the Grand Cauon are absolutely unique and with-out rivals anywhere. Most of the illustrations in this volume are by cour-teous permission reproduced from photographs in theexcellent collection of Messrs. Taber, San Francisco,Haynes, Yellowstone Park, B. C. Towne & )\Iacalpin &Lamb, Portland, and Iierce & Blanchard, Los Angeles. H. T. F. ToKio, Japan, August, 1890,
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THE PACIFIC SLOPE—FROM MEXICO TO ALASKA. CONTENTS. I. Los Angeles County. PAGE Across the Contiuent — A Storm in the Desert — A Contemptuous City— Progress and Prospects — The Land Boom — Climate and Crops —Ostrich-Farming — A Vineyard Terror — The Native Wines — Quail-Hunting 1 n. Southern California in Winter. A Collapsed Boom — Los Angeles To-day — Prospects for Immigra-tion — Poultry and Cattle — Five Sources of Water for Irrigation —Windmills, and Tunnels under River-Beds 15 III. The Great American Paradise. Value of Reservoirs — Winter in Southern California — Flowers andSunshine — Where Raia means Better Weather—Dry Air andSea-Breezes — Fogs and Frost — California for Invalids as comparedwith Italy, Spain, and Africa —Rural Cities of the Future —ThePacific Andalusia — Some Disadvantages — Gophers, Dust-Storms,Drought — Enemies of the Orange and Vine 25 rv. The Home of the Orange. The German Colony at Anaheim —Rabhit-Huuting

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