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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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eived idea. This was the outskirts of the Yellowstone Park, as wehad so often fancied it; the wild, almost treeless, waste of low hills,covered with pale green sage bushes, here and there a lonely white house,and four or five reckless horsemen dashing away before us, controlling big-herds of scattered cattle. On the slopes were the most exquisite wildflowers; one especially beautiful blossom was shaped like a pond lily, andbore on the same plant both white and shell-pink flowers. Little gophers,which the driver called whang-doodles, scudded past us, and cotton-tail rabbits bobbed through the sedge. Once we passed a white prairieschooner lumbering slowly along, and, peeping inside, we saw a comelybrown-faced woman and four or five black-eyed children. A little beyondwas their discarded camp, and near it we noticed steam ascending from apool of water, A boiling spring ! It gave us a strange feeling of the MAPOF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Compiled from different official explorations
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Fig. 120. Plan of the Yellowstone Park. The Mammoth Hot Sjorings. 173 thinness and instability of the very ground, and it seemed as though wemust be over a boiling lake. A few trees were scattered on the hillside,and soon we approached a fringe of verdure along the banks of the foamingGardiner River. At about noon we saw between the green hills, the smoking terracesof the Mammoth Hot Springs. There is something so unnatural in thisstrange great formation that its effect is almost saddening, and thewonderful beauty of its varied colouring only makes it the more unearthly.It is far more like a scene from the Inferno than a part of the UnitedStates, and it requires but little imagination to people this blastedmountain with throngs of demons. After lunch we began the ascent, firstpassing the Liberty Cap, which is an extinct geyser cone 52 ft. high and20 ft. in diameter at its base. We had all brought blue or smoked glasses with us, but, veryfortunately, the sun was partially overclouded,

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