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

For the peace that is and the perils pass’d;

For the hope that is and the rest at last!

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“A rush of rivers and a brush of trees,

A breath blown far from the Mexican seas,

And over the great heart-vein of earth!

.... By the South-Sun-land of the Cherokee,

By the scalp-lock-lodge of the tall Pawnee,

And up La Platte. What a weary dearth

Of the homes of men! What a wild delight