The Pacific Coast scenic tour : $b From Southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
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"The Pacific Coast scenic tour" by Henry T. Finck is a travelogue written in the late 19th century. It presents a grand journey from Southern California to Alaska—with diversions to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon—mixing vivid landscape description with practical counsel on routes, seasons, and sights, and a strong advocacy for the West’s climate, scenery, and emerging industries. It reads as both an invitation to tourists and a persuasive guide for health-seekers and settlers.
The opening of this travelogue sets its scope and approach: a broad, affectionate survey of the entire Pacific Coast, with clear advice on timing each stop to its best season and a promise to capture “local color.” Finck begins with the cross-country rail approach, a dramatic desert rainstorm, and first impressions of Los Angeles—its rapid growth, electric streetcars, real-estate boom and bust—and then turns to the region’s lifeblood: irrigation via windmills, artesian wells, ditches, and remarkable tunnels be
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