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Title: Summer tours : season 1924
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Company Chicago and North Western Railway Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Dept. of Tours, Chicago Union Pacific & Northwestern Line
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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otor trip takes the party to LakeHotel, a restful structure overlooking Yellowstone Lake. The late afternoon affords timefor fishing, boating, mountain climbing or just resting. After dinner, see the bears,big and little, cinnamon and silver tip, come out of the forest for their twilight meal. THIRD DAY IN YELLOWSTONE (Fifth day en route) We leave the hotel at 10.00 a.m., drive sixteen miles to the Grand Canyon, visit ArtistPoint and arrive at the Canyon Hotel at noon. The Grand Canyon is the most brilliantlycolored spectacle in nature. Great cataracts tumble into its depths. One of these fallsdrops a greater distance than twice the height of Niagara. FOURTH DAY IN YELLOWSTONE (Sixth day en route) The fourth morning is also spent at the Canyon. You will wish you could stay amonth. If you are robust, you can climb down into the Canyon and discover new sensa-tions in its sublime depths. At 1.15 p.m. our party boards its motor cars and goes north- Five *Nortli Western-Union Pacific Tours
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Weber Canyon, Utah. In center and at left are double tracks of the Union Pacific SystemAt right is the Lincoln Highway ward through Dunraven Pass, visiting Tower Falls and the strangely different SecondCanyon of the Yellowstone. This part of the Park, opened up by the advent of the auto,gives Yellowstone a new highway, the Chittenden Road, which is superior, scenically andfrom an engineering standpoint, to any other road in the Yellowstone region. Bowknotcurves, lofty passes, broad vistas, towering overhanging cliffs, pinnacles, waterfalls, wildgame and wild flowers make up a partial list of the attractions on this new route, endingat Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel. FIFTH DAY IN YELLOWSTONE (Seventh day en route) Our party spends the entire morning in an 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, Jupiter Ter-race, Hymen Terrace, an

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