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Title: Summer tours
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Company Chicago and North Western Railway Company
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Dept. of Tours, Chicago Union Pacific & Northwestern Line
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ed pools and more geysers. After lunch a 35 mile motor trip takes the party to LakeHotel, a restful structure overlooking Yellowstone Lake. The late cifternoon affordstime for fishing, boating, mountain climbing or just resting. After dinner, see thebears big and little, cinnamon and silver tip—come out of the forest for their twilightmeal. Third Day in Yellowstone We leave the hotel at 10:00 AM, drive 16 miles to the Grand Canyon, visit ArtistPoint and arrive at the Hotel at noon. The Grand Canyon is the most brilliantly coloredspectacle in nature. Great cataracts tumble into its depths. One of these falls drops agreater distance than the height of Chicagos Masonic Temple. Fourth Day in Yellowstone The fourth morning is also spent here. You will wish you could stay a month. Ifyou are robust, you can climb down into the Canyon and discover new sensations in itssublime depths. At 1:30 PM our party boards its motor cars and goes northward through Five Select Escorted Tours 17th Season
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Weber Canyon, Utah. In center and at left are double tracks of Union PacificAt right is the Lincoln Highway Dunraven Pass, visiting Tower Falls and the strangely different Second Canyon of theYellowstone. (See illustration.) This part of the Park, opened up by the advent of theauto, gives Yellowstone a new highway, the Chittenden Road, which is superior, scenicallyand from an engineering standpoint, to any other road in the Yellowstone region. Bow-knot curves, lofty passes, broad vistas, towering overhanging cliffs, pinnacles, waterfalls,wild game and wild flowers make up a partial list of the attractions on this new route. Fifth Day in Yellowstone Our party spends the entire morning in cm inspection of the terraces of the MammothHot Springs. Since the destruction of the pink and white terrace of New Zealand thesesprings stand without a counterpart in the world. After visiting this region, JupiterTerrace, Hymen Terrace, and Devils Kitchen will be woven in the fabric of lastingmemories

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