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Title: Yellowstone National Park
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
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Publisher: (Chicago : Burlington Route)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t weregraven by time and water and air into monstrous heads of kings,dead chiefs—men and women of the old time. So far belowthat no sound of its strife could reach us, the Yellowstone Riverran, a finger-wide strip of jade green. The sunlight took those wondrous walls and gave fresh huesto those that Nature had already laid there. Evening crept through the pines that shadowed us, but thefull glory of the day flamed in that Canyon as we went out very Pcige Six cJVell o w s \ o r\- o TvLalioixal ^P cautiously to a jutting piece of rock—blood-red or pink it was—that overhung the deepest deeps of all. The famous artist Moran said: Its beautiful tints were beyondthe reach of human art; and General Sherman, referring toMorans painting of the Canyon, said: The painting by Moranin the Capitol is good, but painting and words are unequal to thesubject. Folsom, connected with the private expedition of 69, andwho first wrote of the Canyon, said: Language is entirely inade-
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Old Faithful Geyser quate to convey a just conception of the awful grandeur andsublimity of this most beautiful of Natures handiwork. The Lower Fall of the Yellowstone is almost twice as high asNiagara—310 feet—and while not nearly so much water flowsover it, it is far more beautiful. The Upper Fall is still morebeautiful, although not so high— 112 feet. Stairways havebeen built to a point just above the Lower Fall and to a point justbelow and to one side of the brink of the Upper Fall, and one willbe well repaid for the climb down and back to both of these points. The Canyon and Lower Fall are seen to the best advantagefrom Artist Point, which is reached by a short drive via theartistic concrete bridge which spans the Yellowstone River ashort distance above the Upper Fall, and from Inspiration Pointon the west side of the river about a mile and a half below theLower Fall. From both points the views are matchless in theirbeauty and grandeur. After breakfast at the Canyon Hotel t

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