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Excerpt from New Guide to the Pacific Coast: Santa Fe Route, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois This Guidebook embraces a journey from Chicago to the Pacific Coast by way of the Santa Fe Route, and covers a similar journey from St. Louis as well, since after the first few hundred miles, namely, beyond Burrton, Kan., the route is the same from both cities. It aims to furnish general information regarding the regions traversed, and specific data concerning particular points of interest by the way. Doubtless more has been included than would suffice to answer the general inquiries of any one tourist, but he must offer much who would bring something to many, and what one reader may consider good matter to skip another may regard as pertinent and profitable. To facilitate both, so far as practicable, the text has been systematically arranged under definitive headings. Extended description of special objects of interest has been restricted to such as can not be seen, or can not be appreciated, except by stopping over and making a side-excursion away from the thoroughfare. The United States Census for 1890 is authority for the population of towns and cities given herein, unless otherwise stated. Since the date of that census, it is hardly necessary to add, the number of inhabitants of many of those communities has materially increased. The attention of the reader is invited to the index of this volume, and for the pronunciation and signification of unfamiliar names he is referred to the appended vocabulary. 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."