The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned

Part 5

Chapter 592 wordsPublic domain

“We have lived an age in a half-moon-wane! We have seen a world! We have chased the sun From sea to sea; but the task is done. We here descend to the great white main— To the King of Seas, with its temples bare And a tropic breath on the brow and hair.” —_Joaquin Miller._

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