The Pacific Coast scenic tour (Registro nro. 118604)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F850.5 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Finck, Henry T., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1854-1926 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Pacific Coast scenic tour |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-02-08 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Peter Becker, A Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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.<br/><br/>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 beneath riverbeds, with reservoirs envisioned as the key to limitless growth. He praises Southern California’s winter-spring—sunny, dry, breezy, flower-rich—and sells it as a superior health resort to Florida and Mediterranean Europe, while imagining future “rural cities” of shaded avenues, orchards, and electric rails; yet he notes drawbacks like gophers, pests, the Santa Ana winds, dust, and occasional frost. He tours Anaheim and Riverside as the heart of orange culture (favoring the Washington navel), describes model orchards and Magnolia Avenue, skewers local prohibition, and traces a southbound ride past fields and canyons to San Diego and Coronado, where an ideal maritime climate, ocean bathing, and the vast Sweetwater Reservoir showcase irrigation’s power. The section closes with a light dip over the Mexican border to Tia Juana—burros, tent saloons, a pistol-wearing customs post, and meager curios—before the narrative turns back toward California. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1891 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Alaska -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Pacific States -- Description and travel |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/pacificcoastscen1891finc">https://archive.org/details/pacificcoastscen1891finc</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77884">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77884</a> |
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