The railroad’s snow-sheds screened travelers from the scenery they paid to see
Evidence
A story was current of a man having ridden through Truckee two evenings before with a chopped-up human body in a sack behind the saddle, and hosts of stories of ruffianism are located there, rightly or wrongly. … On the opposite side, at a height of about 6,000 feet, a grey, ascending line, from which rumbling, incoherent sounds occasionally proceeded, is seen through the pines. This is one of the snow-sheds of the Pacific Railroad, which shuts out from travelers all that I was seeing. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 37
Categorization
- QUESTION: Birds often marvels at how infrastructure (telegraphs, wharves, railroads) trades human faces/experience for scenery or vice versa - worth tracking as a recurring theme in her travel philosophy.
- XREF: connects to: Sierra snow-sheds blocked fifty miles of mountain views from rail passengers — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 69
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Broader Connections
- Sierra snow-sheds blocked fifty miles of mountain views from rail passengers
#corroborates(0.95) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 69