supper in a land of perpetual summer, and have glided down from far above timber
line into a region of continuous bloom, where the luscious fruits ripen each day of the
year.

The author first began his explorations of the Trans-Mississippi country in 1860, as
a “Pilgrim,” and upon the completion of the Pacific railroad-line, wrote the first
descriptive guide of the roads—from actual observation—the “Great Trans-Continental
Railroad Guide” of 1869. Soon “Crofutt’s Tourist’? followed, the publication of
which was continued thereafter. The popularity of these books was so great that the
sale aggregated 344,000 copies.

The present book describes more than three times the extent of country of any book
heretofore published, and is profusely illustrated by: nearly 100 beautiful engravings,
most of which were photographed, designed, drawn, and engraved expressly for the
author of this work.

AnnEx—A department in the back part of this book, originated by the author,
under which will be found a mass of condensed information, indirectly pertaining
to the subject-matter of this work—and under which will be found full descriptions
of all the large, double-page illustrations contained in this, our new book.

From the first issue of our book, in 1869, imitators have been numerous; no less
than twenty-five “ Guide-books,” Tourists’ Hand-books,” and “ Books of Travels Across
the Continent,” etc., etc., have been issued, most of which were compiled in the East—
without their compilers traveling over one foot of the route or at least not spending
more than a few days on the road—while we have spent the best part of every year
since 1860 acquiring the information,—every item of which we are prepared to verify,

To newspaper correspondents across the continent, our books have proved a per-
petual “ God-send,” enabling them to minutely describe the wonders of the trip passed
in the night, while sleeping soundly in a palace car, equally as well as though they
were awake and in perpetual daylight. Now we do not mean to complain of these
flighty journalists, as they are all “good fellows,” but we do expect the courtesies
usually extended by all honorable writers.

GEO. A. CROPUTT.

Curcaao, Tuu., April, 1878.

 

GHNEHRAT INDEX:

LARGE VIEWS. ILLUSTRATIONS, y Pace.
Summit of the Mountains.... 73
i No. PAGE.| Forest View, Foot Hill Coun’y 7%
American Progress........:. 1| Utah’s Best Crop...Frontispiece| Yo:-Semite Falls....... sess. TT
Castellated Rocks at Green Bird's Eye View ofthe Plains 27/Pirst Steam Train.... ....... 82
ERAV Olan ts alee cle seo vec cc 2}Hanging Rock, Am. Fork.... 29) Devil's Gate, Weber Canyon. 88
Clear Creek Canyon........- 3|Sidney Dillon, of U.P. R.R.. 81) Interior View Snow Shed.... 85
Boulder Canyon...............-4)/Missouri River Bridge....... 35) Overland Pony Express... . 7
Garden ofthe Gods........... 5|Grand Central Hotel..... ... 7| Palisades of the Humboldt... 91
Steamboat Rock, Echo...... 6|Hanging Rock, Echo Canyon 39)Crossing the ‘‘Range’’ on
Valley of the Yellowstone.. . 7|High School, Omaha......... Snow Skates.....32 0.2... 93
Fails of the Yellowstone..... 8)Devil’s Slide, Weber Canyon. 45) Seals and Sea Lions..... .... 99
Falls of the Williamette........ 9| Crossing Sangre deChristo Mt 47] Snow Galleries..............- 101
Cape Horn, Columbia River. 10)Dale Creek Bridge. ........ 49) View of Salt Lake City......- 103
Wood Hauling in Nevada.... 11)Profile Map, U.P. R.R.... .. 53) Starvation Camp............ 105
Mirror Lake, Yo-Semite aioe 12) Finger Rock, Weber.........- 55] Crossing the Truckee River.. 167
Nevada Falls, Yo-Semite..... 13)/Monument Rock, Black Hills 57 Mining Map of Utah......... 109
Summit Sierras.............. 14)Down the Weber Rivor...... 59| James Bride@er ....,: ccc cone LEL
Mt. Shasta, California... .... 15|Wash-a-kie—“ big chief’..... 61] Pricky, the Horned Toad..... 115
State Capital of California... 16) Burning Rock Cut........... 65) Pulpit Rock, Echo Canyon.. 117
The Geyser, California....... Iv|Big Mule Team... .......... 67/One Thousand Mile Tree..... 118
San Francisco and Surround- Mormon Temple. « «cmos cues:

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18) Donner Lake Boating Party..

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69| Interior View Mormon Taber- ay