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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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Fig. 38. Mount Ouray.
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Fig. 39. Black Canon of the Gunnison ; The Ourrencati Needle. 56 The Yoftemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. must be one whether he will or not. So then, after passing Gunnison,where the Crested Butte branch joins the main line, and noting the variousmines of silver, copper, lead, and coal, together with the presence of severalsmelting works, the tourist passes along the beautiful river of the samename and at once plunges into the Black Canon of the Gunnison. If thisname sounds forbidding, it need not deter the traveller, for he will be wellrepaid for his journey. The question will at once arise as to which toadmire, the skill of the engineer who laid out this line, or the nerve of thecapitalist who paid for it, for the road runs for miles on a platform of rockobtained by blasting the face of the cliff, and the walls rise up frequently2000 ft. perpendicularly, so that between these cliffs appears a little rift ofsky, the bluest ever beheld. Foreign travellers have told the writers it

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