The Alta California Pacific Coast and Trans-Continental Rail-road guide
Subtitle: Contains more information about the states and territories of the Pacific coast, and those traversed by the great trans-continental Railroad, than any other book extant. It gives a minutely detailed account of every city, town, railroad station, mining district, mountain, valley, lake, river, hunting and fishing ground along the great trans-continental railroad, together with an account of California, its industries, land, climate, and how newcomers can obtain public land. It is profusely illustrated with excellent views of the grand scenery of the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, and contains full information about all the towns and cities adjacent to the Cal. P.R.R., Utah Central R.R., the S.P.R.R., the U.P.R.R., and the Utah Central R.R., together with their connections by rail, stage, and steamer. It will tell you where to find the mines, what they yield, where to go, where to fish, and where to hund the buffalo, the antelope and the elk
By: J.C. Fergusson, editor and manager
Publisher: Fred. MacCrellish & Co.
Published: 1871
Place of publication: San Francisco, Cal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Guidebooks
Notes: Central Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad schedules preceed the text; "Statistics of California for 1868-9 follow."

"Map of the Central Pacific Railroad and its connections; folded map tipped in."