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Title: Shoshone, and other western wonders
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Roberts, Edwards
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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flow. Evapora-tion alone prevents inundation. At Garfield thebeach is hard and shelving. Year by year theshore becomes more popular as a resort, andin time will have, like Newport, its villas andanimated life. Chapter VII. SHOSHONE. AUGUST was lazily counting its last daysbefore we were ready to leave the king-dom of Mormonism. We had already decidedto go north to the Shoshone Falls (Sho-sho-nee)in Southern Idaho, and from there to the Yel-lowstone. September, we were told, was thebest of all months in which to see the famousPark. Getting out of Utah is nearly as interesting asentering the Territory. The journey northwardtoward Ogden is not so picturesque, perhaps, andthe scenery en route is not so varied and sub-lime ; but the views one has of valley and hillare pastoral, and for an hour at least the roadclosely follows the curving shore of the lake.Looking upon the vast expanse of water, soquiet and mysterious, one recalls the strangehistory of the salty sea which sleeps so serenely
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SHOSHONE. 145 in the midst of a waterless desert. There areno fish in Sah Lake, and but few boats areever seen. As a rule the shores are flat andsandy, white with layers of salt; but far awayto the westward are high mountains, wonder-fully colored and having the roughest possiblecontour. It is very customary to regard the middleWest as utterly lacking in historical interest.That its modern history is meagre one cannotdeny; and the story of the time when the Indiansheld it and waged their barbarous battles againstthe invaders from the East is soon told, and isnow too well known to bear repeating. Butin view of what we already know through thegeologists, one will feel that our deserts are notso barren of interest as might be supposed. Notevery country in the world has once been thebed of an ocean. There was a vast amountof irresistible force employed in the dim past,— a force that drank the sea dry and thatlevelled mountains and fashioned the strangeobjects that to-day gaze down upon

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