Pacific Tourist, 172.
This kind of rhetoric was common;
see Yellowstone National Park, Railway Age, Oct. 23, 1879, p. 511.
Van Horne to Harry Abbott, Oct. 7, 1886, LB, 18, v. 3.
For the experience of travel, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1986).
William Emerson Strong, Glimpses of Travel in the West with the Lieutenant General of the Army (Ayer MS 3175), p. 11, Newberry Library.
Strong, "Travels," 11-15.