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 kiss of welcome on the warm west breeze

Blows up with a smell of the fragrant pine,

And a faint, sweet fragrance from the far-off seas

Comes in through the gates of the great South Pass,

And thrills the soul like a flow of wine.

The hare leaps low in the storm-bent grass,

The mountain ram from his cliff looks back,

The brown deer hies to the tamarack.

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