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Title: The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wiley, William Halsted, 1842-1925 Wiley, Sara King, 1871-1909
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Publisher: London, Offices of "Engineering" New York, J. Wiley & sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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church. At the entrance to this canonare two large sandstone rocks 500 ft. high, standing like sentinels, leavingscarcely room for the tiny railroad track to enter. The grade rises rapidlyagain, the track passes through Castle Gate (Fig. 48) and enters the PriceRiver Canon. The two pillars, about 500 ft. high, are of a deep red, andthis is set off in contrast by the pines which grow at the edges of the base.The views in the canon are still on the magnificent order, and every eyewas strained to see them till night, but even then it was not lost to us,since a full moon kept up the interest, throwing a sort of spectral effectupon the scene, and late that night, on raising the state-room curtain, wecould see the level stretches of sage brush, looking as though covered witha heavy frost, the great buttes standing out black against the silver clouds.From the gateway to the Canon of the Wahsatch Mountains the graderises to 227 ft. to the mile, requiring two engines for one train, and the air
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■4O A o 70 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. was so pure and exhilarating that the spirits of the party rose like creamon new milk, one of them being heard to declare in his ecstasy, I declareI feel good enough to join the Mormon Church, and the opportunity wassoon to be afforded him, for the next morning found us at Salt Lake City,and in the presence of that strange body of people. The approaches tothis place from the canon just described were novel and attractive. In theearly morning we passed several dug-oats, which were nothing butholes in a side hill, with timbers placed to hold the earth up. At one ofthese openings we saw at least seven people, and near by was evidently aboarding-house, also a dug-out, with the entire family at breakfast;the host being somewhat cramped for room had considerately put the boxserving for a chair outside the building, but his head and shoulders wereinside, and he bent fondly over the table constructed of several boxes.The sign over the do

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