Excerpt from A Description of the Western Resorts for Health and Pleasure Reached Via Union Pacific System, "the Overland Route" To a vast majority of our people this great country was, until within the last few years, practically a sealed book, when its treasures of climate, scenery and products were opened up to the world, by the original completion and the later extensions of the Union Pacific, the overland route. This little pamphlet is not a literary attempt, but simply a terse description of many places in brief, pointed paragraphs, the object being not to weary the general traveler Who may chance to read it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.