This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows American Canyon. The Sierra Nevada, as the name implies, is a range of rugged wild broken mountain-tops, always covered with snow. From Summit (7,017 ft.) the line descends continuously to Sacramento, which is only 30 ft. above the sea level, and 104 miles from Summit. About 36 miles from Summit, the great American Canyon, one of the wildest gorges in the Sierra Nevada range, is passed. Here the American River is confined for a length of two miles between precipitous walls of rock, 2,000 ft. in height, and so steep that no human foot has ever yet followed the stream through this tremendous gorge (as of the 1870s - and pictured here).
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This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows American Canyon. The Sierra Nevada, as the name implies, is a range of rugged wild broken mountain-tops, always covered with snow. From Summit (7,017 ft.) the line descends continuously to Sacramento, which is only 30 ft. above the sea level, and 104 miles from Summit. About 36 miles from Summit, the great American Canyon, one of the wildest gorges in the Sierra Nevada range, is passed. Here the American River is confined for a length of two miles between precipitous walls of rock, 2,000 ft. in height, and so steep that no human foot has ever yet followed the stream through this tremendous gorge (as of the 1870s - and pictured here).

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American Canyon Sierra nevada Sacramento railway transcontinental railroad Summit Pacific Railway Pacific Railway River trains America United States Industrial revolution 1870s 19th century

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