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100	1		_aFinck, Henry T., _d1854-1926
245	1	4	_aThe Pacific Coast scenic tour
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-02-08
508			_aPeter 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			_a"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 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			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1891
653			_aAlaska -- Description and travel
653			_aPacific States -- Description and travel
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/pacificcoastscen1891finc
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77884
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