The Santa Fe Trail
THE GRAND CANON OF ARIZONA ROUTE, VIA WASHINGTON AND ST. Louis TO KANSAS CITY.
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Washington, D.C., is reached in five hours by train from New York. The noble Capitol is worthy of the great nation. Beneath its vast dome, by Congress and Senate, are made the laws which govern the United States of America and islands beyond the seas. |
| 3d day | St. Louis, Mo., about twenty-six hours by train from Washington. |
| 4th day | Kansas City, Mo., about six hours by train from St. Louis. |
VIA NIAGARA FALLS AND CHICAGO TO KANSAS CITY. |
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Niagara Falls, about nine hours from New York by the "Twentieth Century Limited" or " Empire State Express." The Falls are the second largest in the known world. |
| 3d day | Chicago, the great Western metropolis, about twelve hours by train from Niagara Falls. |
| 4th day | Kansas City, about twelve hours by train from Chicago. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa ¥6 Railroad, from Chicago to California, follows the old Santa Fd trail and is one of the most characteristic of the transcontinental lines. The distance from Kansas City to San Francisco is 2,121 miles, and is covered by limited trains in sixty hours, but an extra ten days may be well spent. |
| 5th day | Las Vegas, N.M., about twenty hours by train from Kansas City. Celebrated for its hot mineral springs. |
| 6th day | Santa Fe, N.M., about four hours by train from Las Vegas. One of the oldest Spanish towns in the country, founded in 1605. Here Gen. Lew Wallace wrote "Ben Hur." |
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Leave Santa Fe for Holbrook, about ten hours by rail. Holbrook is the nearest town to the Moki Indian Reservation, and also to one of the Arizona petrified forests. |
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The Grand Canon of Arizona (nine hours by rail from Holbrook) is 217 miles long, from nine to thirteen miles wide, and, midway, more than 6,000 feet below the level of the plateau. This is also the neighborhood of the cliff dwellers. |
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Los Angeles (about twenty hours by rail from the Grand Canon), an old Spanish town, originally called the town of the queen of angels. Since 1880, owing to successive booms, it has increased from a population of 11,000 to 175,000. It is the center of the fruit-growing country, and a drive to the orange groves of the neighboring town of Pasadena is a delightful experience. About four hours farther south are San Diego and Coronado Beach. |
| 14th day | Leave Los Angeles by the Coast Line for San Francisco, about fourteen hours by train along the Riviera of America. Travelers wishing to see the Big Trees and Yosemite Valley take the inland route, and stop off at Berenda or Merced. It requires about a week to visit and see the valley satisfactorily. |
The Same Route, from San Francisco to New York |
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| 1st day | Leave San Francisco for Los Angeles, cither by the Coast Line via Santa Barbara (which takes about fourteen hours by train), or via the inland route, about eighteen hours. By the latter route the journey can be broken either at Merced or Berenda, and a side trip made to the Yosemite Valley, which should take about six days to see properly. |
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Los Angeles, the "city of the angels," and the center of the fruit-growing district. Drive to Pasadena, in the San Gabriel Valley. |
| 4th day | By rail from Los Angeles to the Grand Canon of Arizona, about twenty-two hours from Los Angeles. |
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At the Grand Canon of Arizona, one of the most stupendous sights of this American Continent, or any other continent. |
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Leave the Grand Canon for Holbrook, Ari., about nine hours by rail. From Holbrook excursions can be made to the Moki Indian Reser- . vation, also the petrified forest |
| 9th day | Santa Fe, N.M., about ten hours by rail from Holbrook. One of the oldest cities in the country. |
| 10th day | Las Vegas Hot Springs, N.M., about four hours by rail from Santa Fe. |
| 11th day | Kansas City, Mo., about twenty hours by rail from Las Vegas. |
| 12th day | Chicago, Ill. The great Western metropolis is about twelve hours from Kansas City. |
| 13th day | Niagara Falls, N.Y., twelve hours by rail from Chicago. |
| 14th day | New York City, about nine hours from Niagara Falls. Travelers desirous of seeing the St. Lawrence proceed from Niagara Falls, as described on page 234 of this book, to Montreal, thence to New York. |
FROM KANSAS CITY TO NEW YORK, VIA WASHINGTON. |
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| 12th day | St. Louis, Mo., about six hours by train from Kansas City. |
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Washington, D.C., about twenty-six hours by train from St. Louis. |
| 15th day | New York, about five hours from Washington. |
