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Identifier: overtrailsofglac00dill (find matches)
Title: Over the trails of Glacier National Park
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Dillon, Tom
Subjects: Glacier National Park
Publisher: (St. Paul, Minn.) : (Great Northern Railway)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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Red Eagle Mountain, Glacier National Park GLACIER NATIONAL PARK 13 Gradually one becomes conscious of a deeper note that drowns the chordlessharmonies in the tree-tops. Quickly it grows on the ear, as the guide tells us thatthe Royal Gorge is but a few yards away. The trail turns sharply to the left,pitches down for a little canyon; the ponies hunch their backs as they climb theopposite bank, and the first sight of the Royal Gorge is there in front. A dozenlittle rainbows are dervish-dancing in the mist that floats up from the crashingtorrent. The gorge is perhaps a quarter of a mile long—a rugged, twisted stair-way, down which the waters roar, frothy white, tumbling, twisting, swirling,booming, snarling, whining. Timidly the edge is approached, although thefooting is solid rock. Five miles up is the glacier prison of these waters, where for ages they havebeen held. Loosened by the sun, they leaped two thousand feet in joy to thebosom of Avalanche Lake, and now each drop is panic-st

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