Kit Carson knew
the "four great routes"
Kit Carson! Hack and forth over
a stage i 500 miles square, routing
Indians, leading Fremont through
the mountains, crawling barefoot
over cactus needles to save Kearny's
army in the conquest of California,
spiking Spanish cannon at San Francisco, and dashing away again over Arizona and New Mexico to honeymoon
with Josefa Jaramillo, his dark-eyed
bride—here was a man who knew the
West and all its trails!
Kit Carson passed from the scene just
as the first overland railroad  (Central
Pacific, forerunner of Southern Pacific)
built eastward from the
western ocean in 1 867.
The rails of Southern
Pacific's Over land Routk today follow
close to the path made by Kit Carson to
California. Sunset, Golden State and
Shasta Routes also follow many a
league of Kit Carson's gallopings. iKt
Klamath Lake, in Oregon, Carson and
Fremont fought a famous Indian battle
Southern Pacific
near where the Siskiyou and Cascade lines of Shasta Roite divide
to embrace Crater Lake.
Southern Pacific's lour routes to
California are pioneer western lines
and inheritors of the best natural
routes as found by early-day frontiersmen. These four routes give you a
splendid chance to see the epic West and
the whole Pacific Coast. Only Southern
Pacific offers four routes. You can go one
wav, return another. Stop over any where.
Be sure to send your name and address
to F. W. Clapp, traffic manager, 3 10 S.
Michigan Blvd., Chicago, for free travel
book with illustrations,
entitled "How Best to
See the Pacific Coast".
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SUNSET    ROUTE
New York to New Orleans by Southern Pacific steamer
(berth, meals included on steamer), or by rail. Thence
Houston. San Antonio and El Paso to San Diego via
Carriso Gorge, Los Angles and San Francisco, without
changes Apache Trail motor highway in Arizona, delightful one-day side-trip "Smud Limited."
OVERLAND (ukeJnihof) ROUTE      GOLDEN STATE   ROUTE      SHASTA    ROUTE
Straight across mldcontlnent from Chicago,
Kan>as Citv and Denver. Across Great Salt Lake by rail,
through Nevada's mountain-rimmed basin, down American
River Canyon and across central California. Rock-ballasted
roadbed, oil-burning locomotives and excellent cuisine, aeon
all four routes. "Snn Franritto Overland Limited"
The direct line, Chicago to Los Angeles, San Diego and
Santa Barbara, via Kansas City. Joins Sunset Route at El
Paso. Stop over there to see .luarez. Old Mexico. Apache
Trail highway side-trip in Ariiona. Through sleepers from
Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis. Kansas Citv and Memphis.
"Golden State Limited"    none faster nor finer.
o California via Portland, Oregon. Choice of
two lines through Oregon: Siskiyou line, through river val-
leys, or new scenic Cascade Line through alpine forests and
lakes. These embrace Crater I.ake and rejoin near ML
Shasta: thence to San Francisco. Optional motor oiach
detour through California's Redwood Empire." Th, Ca»cade"
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