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Title: Yellowstone National Park : Union Pacific, standard road of the West : new and direct route, see picturesque Colorado
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: Omaha, Neb. : Union Pacific Railroad Co. and Oregon Short Line Railroad Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Giant Geyser. PARK INNS The inns are located near by the greatest mar-vels of the Park, and their sites have been selectedto show^ them off with admirable skill. From the Fountain the geysers of the lowerbasin can be seen at their play. Old Faithful Inn looks out upon a great steam-ing, spouting field, and has its namesake — theglory of all the geysers — almost at its doors. Sonear, indeed, is it, that all the night through, atintervals of seventy minutes, can be heard the oldmonster in eruption. On a slope that sweeps gently down to thewaters sits the Lake Inn. The forest creeps downto it on three sides, and the outlook from its goodlyporches is over the broad expanse of YellowstoneLake — one of the highest of navigated seas, and
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Reinforced Concrete Bridge over Yellowstone River. as passive, clear and prettily tree-trimmed a sheetof water as there is in the world. You may reachthis inn from Thumb by steamer or by coach; but,if you would have two hours of ecstacy, take thesteamer. Thumb is a lunch station, and the lunchthere is a creation. The new Canon Hotel at the Grand Canon ofthe Yellowstone, built in 1910, with 450 rooms, issituated at a point of great interest. Near at handare the great Falls and the upper Falls. The Canon Inn is almost on the brink of the gorge where falls the Yellowstone. It is a duplica-tion in excellence of the other inns, and when youbid it good-bye it is to begin your last days tour ofthe Park. Then comes Norris, with its geysers andits awful Black Growler, and a lunch that willsend the tourist on his homeward way with agrateful heart. After that — Yellowstone — andthe whistle of the engine and the w^aiting Pull-man— your tour is ended and the Park a pleasantmemory.

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