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Title: Grand tour guide to the Yellowstone National Park : a manual for tourists, being a description of the Mammoth hot springs, the geyser basins, the cataracts, the cañons, and other features of the new wonderland : with twenty-one illustrations, a plan of the upper geyser basin and route maps : also an appendix containing railroad rates, as well as other miscellaneous information
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: W.C. Riley (Firm)
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Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ring Creek, through the wild gorge known asDry Cafion, and down the mountain slopes 2,000 feet to Pleas-ant Valley and Baronettes Bridge at the Forks of the Yellow-stone River. This bridge is over the main stream, not farfrom its confluence with the East Fork. It was constructedfor the benefit of the miners at Cooke City, on the Clarks Fork,about fifty miles distant, in the Big Horn Mountains. Itsproprietor. Jack Baronette, is one of the most famous guidesand hunters in the country. Leaving the bridge, the trailfollows the west side of the Yellowstone, at first quite near thestream, but gradually bearing to the west until Tower Creekis reached. Tower Falls.—About three miles south of this bridge,Tower Creek, which is a rapid, snow-fed brook, twelve orfifteen feet wide and one or two feet deep, joins the Yellow-stone. The creek flows for about ten miles through a narrow,rugged and precipitous caiion, enclosed by walls 300 to 400feet high. Two hundred yards above its entrance into the
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GRAND TOUR OF THE PARK. 119 Yellowstone the stream pours over an abrupt descent of 132feet into a deep, gloomy gorge, so narrow that the sunsrays scarcely penetrate it. The Falls are not unlike thoseof Minnehaha, inasmuch as there is a clear, safe passagebetween them and the wall behind them ; but they have eightor ten times the mass of water, and are three or four times ashigh. These falls are surrounded by columns of volcanicbreccia, rising fifty feet above them, standing like the towersupon some mediaeval fortress. Describing these columns, Mr.N. P. Langford, first Superintendent of the Park, said : Some resemble towers, others the spires of churches, andothers still shoot up little and slender as the minarets of amosque. Some of the loftiest of these formations, standingupon the very brink of the Falls, are accessible to an expertand adventurous climber. The position attained on one ofthese narrow summits, amid the uproar of waters, at the heightof 200 feet above the boiling chasm

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