Excerpt from Bancroft's Pacific Coast Guide Book The area of which the work treats, is the entire region west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, from Panama to the Arctic Ocean; but a large share of the space is given to the metropolis, for the reasons that it is the home or chief stopping place of a majority of the tourists; that most of the travel for pleasure is Within 100 miles of it and that the information is fuller and more precise in reference to it, than to other districts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.