The Yellowstone National Park - historical and descriptive - illustrated with maps, views and portraits (1895) (14578007918)

Identifier: yellowstonenatio1897chit (find matches)

Title: The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits

Year: 1895 (1890s)

Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917

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Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke Co.

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Tirry En/jr. Co. Gandy. Rapids Above Falls. The river along the lower portion of this valley isthe most tranquil and lovely stream imaginable—broad, deep, transparent, flowing peacefully aroundits graceful curves, disturbed only by the splashing

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A TOUR OF THE PARK. 251 trout which inhabit it. There is little here to suggestthe mad turmoil into which it is soon to plunge. Ata point fifteen miles below the lake, the river and roadare forced by the narrowing valley close together.The stream becomes suddenly broken into turbulentcascades as it dashes violently between precipitousbanks and among massive bowlders. The road also becomes decidedly picturesque. Hungup on the almost vertical cliff overlooking the rapids,it forms a short drive unsurpassed for interest any-where else in the Park. At one point it.crosses adeep ravine over the highest bridge on the road sys-tem. Just to the left of this bridge, in the bottom ofthe ravine, still stands the tree upon which somewhite man carved his initials away back in 1819. Half a mile below the head of the rapids, the riversuddenly contracts its width to less than fifty feet,turns abruptly to the right, and disappears. It is theUpper Fall of the Yellowstone. In some respects,this cataract

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1895

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