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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^ weather-beaten that it looks as if you could kick them over ; butyou cannot. The torrent, at a dizzy depth below, in whichthe green water struggles wildly for supremacy Aviththe white foam, enlivens the scene; and in one place aturn of the river-bed, near a streak of painted rock,gives the impression of two water-falls side by side, onegreen, the other red; one in motion, the other frozen. From the Grand Canon the coupon tourists return tothe Mammoth Springs and Livingston, while those whotravel independently can enjoy the ride over jNIt. Wash-burn, with its extended views of the Rocky Mountains,its fertile sides fairly crammed with flowers of therichest colors and strangest varieties, and its solitarytrail through the depths of a primeval forest, frequentlyblocked by fallen trees, on which one may not meet ahuman being in eight hours, nor hear any sound butthe melancholy moan of a poor tree against wliich a
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i\\LL8 UF TIIK VKl.l.oWSTdNE. THROUGH YELLOWSTONE PARK. 293 dead trunk has fallen, and is wounding it with everymovement of the wind. The dismal delight of thisride is as indescribable as the exciting sport of troutingthat may be enjoyed at Yanceys, whence it is but ashort distance back to our starting-point, the MammothSprings Hotel. After spending a week in the National Park onhorseback, I came to the conclusion that what the Parkchiefly needs now is a railroad, — not a steam railway,which would frighten the game and set fire to theforests, but an electric railroad. Great as are the won-ders of the Yellowstone Park, the intervening distancesare so great and the scenery often so commonplace,that nothing would be lost, and very much gained, byhaving an electric road. Dust and fatigue could bethus avoided, and more time devoted to the wonders ofthe Park in three days than at present in a week. XVIII.THE GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO. FROM LOS ANGELES TO PEACH SPRING DESERT WIND AN ARIZ

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