Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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he tour ofthe Yosemite, and came home by way ofthe Grand Canon of the Colorado. Theytarried at Denver and Colorado Springs,and all along the route discovered that theWest is the great summer playground ofthe future for those who can afford totravel in search of health and pleasure. A ten thousand mile tour of the UnitedStates should be part of the education ofevery young American whose father canafford it. Many youngsters fresh from col-lege are sent tripping it around the globeas a kind of extra preparation for theirwork in life. A smaller investment in acircuit of their own country would makebetter men and more useful citizens ofthem. The grand tour of America is anundertaking that appeals to any man withmore imagination than a mouse. The oldtrails have been made easy and the wayssmooth so that such a plan can be carriedout in more comfort than for any other likedistance on the globe. Let him set forthvia the Great Lakes from Buffalo to Duluth,and make an inland voyage of a thousand
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Westward Ho ! 617 miles, steaming westward all the time. Hedoes not know, he cannot glimpse, the pro-ductive wealth of the country until he seesthe torrent of deep-laden traffic that hur-ries up and down these noble highwaysby night and day. The Atlantic voyage iscommonplace beside this cruise in the heartof America. From Duluth let our pilgrim work west-ward across the prairies of the Dakotasand the cattle ranges of Montana, then dipacross the Cascades until he comes to thestately cities that look toward the Orient.Now he will begin to realize that the des-tinies of his own nation are closely linkedin this Twentieth Century with strangelands far over seas, as he watches the greatships go out to China, Japan, and Honoluluand Australia. Twelve hundred miles tothe southward he finds himself amid thevanishing traces of the old Spanish life ofCalifornia, as unlike the feverish modernityof San Francisco and Los Angeles as ancientEgypt. If the lifetime of man seems too short aspace for doin

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