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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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the joltings he gets when too rapid timeis made over certain parts of the road, — andthe few hours of our journey were soon gone.Looking ahead, in the direction of the river wewere soon to reach, we could see no sign of it.To all appearance the levels were unbroken.At last W., who acted as guide, pointed to asolitary pinon that stood boldly outlined in thedistance, and said the river ran at its base.Keeping the tree in view, and sure of our in-formation, we were still unable to find even thesuggestion of the near presence of a river. Toour eyes there was nothing beyond our imme-diate surroundings, — solitary plains, listless andbare. Then, at last, came the revelation and theindescribable view of the erratic, rock-boundriver. Reaching the tree, we left the coach andcrawled out upon the blackened rocks. Belowus opened the canon through which, a thousandfeet below the upper levels, the river Snakehas its course. The distance from where westood to the water below seemed measureless.
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SHOSHONE. 155 The canon was like a mighty rent in the earth, —an opening cut deep into the surface and withsohd walls of rock rising abruptly from therivers edge. In a dark night, if unacquaintedwith the country, one would drive headlong in-to this gorge ; and the.river, at the bottom, wouldsweep away all trace of the tragedy. Even byday one might easily stumble into the canon.There is nothing to herald its nearness; nothingto save one who makes the first false step. The Snake River is a tributary of the Colum-bia, joining the latter in Eastern Washington.It is born in Wyoming, of the many streamsthat have their source among the mountainsthere, and flows westward through a canon thatfor length and depth, and beauty of a ruggedorder, is one of the marvels of the world.Standing on its brink, or gazing upward fromthe level of the river, the impression upon onesmind is the same. You are oppressed by asense of the awfulness of the creation; andwatching the river moving along so calmly as

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