Sights and scenes in Idaho and Montana for tourists (1892) (14758126802)

Identifier: sightsscenesini00unio (find matches)
Title: Sights and scenes in Idaho and Montana for tourists ..
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago, Press of Knight, Leonard & co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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themupon that picture suspended there in its rugged andsombre frame. As one watches, it is not difficult, to fancy that,away back in the immemorial and .unrecorded past,the angel of love bewailed the fact that mortals wereto be given existence in a spot so forbidding, a spotthat, apparently, was never to be warmed with Godssmile, which was never to make a sign through whichCnnV< mercy was to be discerned ; that then omnipo-tence was touched, that with His hand He smote thehills and started the great river in its flow ; that withHis finger he traced out the channel across the corpseof that other river that had been fire, mingled thesunbeams with the raging waters, and made it possi-ble in that fire-blasted frame of scoria to swing a pict-ure which should be first to the red man and later tothe pale races, a certain sign of the existence, thepower, and the unapproachable splendor of Jehovah. And as the red man, through the centuries,watched the spectacle, comprehending nothing ex- 19
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APPROACH TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Reched via the Union Pacific System. 1. Ford at Snake River. 2. Spearing Trcut, Snake River. 3. Hunters Cabin, Henrys Lake. cept thai an infinite voice was Bmiting his oars, andinsufferable glories were blazing before his eyesthrough the centuries to come, the pale races willstand upon the shuddering shore and watch, experi-encing a mighty impulse to put off the sandals fromtheir feet, under an overmastering consciousness thatthe spot on which they are standing is holy ground. There is nothing elsewhere like it, nothing halfso weird, so beautiful, so clothed in majesty, sodraped with terror, nothing else that awakens im-pressions at once so startling, so winsome, so pro-found. While journeying through the desert, tocome suddenly upon it. the spectacle gives one some-thing of the emotions that would be experienced tobehold a resurrection from the dead. In the midst ofwhat seems like a dead world, suddenly there springsinto irrepressible life somet