Fergusson, J.C. (editor):

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THE ALTA CALIFORNIA PACIFIC COAST AND TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAIL-ROAD GUIDE. An early transcontinental railway travel guide to California and the Western United States. Issued two years following the completion of the transcontinental railway, this entertaining and informative guide is interleaved with pages of advertisements from businesses in San Francisco, Calistoga, Sacramento, Denver, New York City, St. Louis, and Omaha printed on papers of various colors and contains a large folding "Map of the Central Pacific Railroad and its Connections" and a map of "Rail & Stage Route to Big Tree Groves and Yosemite" tipped to the rear of the Central Pacific Railroad map.Organized from West to East, (the first railway travel guide in the United States to do so, according to the editor), the guide provides "a minutely detailed account of every city, town, railroad station mining district, mountain, valley, lake river, hunting and fishing ground along the trans-continental railroad." Detailed information about the towns of the Pacific Coast and the Southwestern United States is provided, as well as more extensive descriptions of California's principal cities, mining and agriculture. There are detailed sections on California's wine, coastline, and redwood forests, as well as guidance for California settlers, and for tourists hunting buffalo, antelope and elk in the various states and territories where the game was found. Other western states and territories profiled in this guide include O

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