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

by Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger Department; Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Department

“A wide domain of mysteries

And signs that men misunderstood

A land of space and dreams; a land

Of seas, salt lakes and dried up seas.

A land of caves and caravans,

And lonely walls and pools;

A land that has its purposes and plans.”

CROSSING WEBER BRIDGE THE TRAIN PLUNGES INTO A TUNNEL HEWN THROUGH THE ROCK, LEAVING THE SERPENTINE RIVER FOR AWHILE