The Yellowstone National Park - a manual for tourists - being a description of the Mammoth Hot Springs, the geyser basins, the cataracts, the cañons and other features of the land of wonders also an (14571978397)

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Title: The Yellowstone National Park : a manual for tourists : being a description of the Mammoth Hot Springs, the geyser basins, the cataracts, the cañons and other features of the land of wonders ... also an appendix containing railroad lines and rates, as well as other miscellaneous information
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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and canon of the EastGardiner, affording an opportunity to see the very beautiful falls of thisstream, situated something over four miles from the starting point.Leaving the East Fork to the right hand, the road passes over the grassyplateaus and lava beds of the valleys of Blacktail Deer and other creeks,beside the yawning fissures fronting Hell-roaring Creek, through the wildgorge known as Dry Canon and down the mountain slopes 2,000 feet toPleasant Valley and Baronettes Bridge at the Forks of the YellowstoneRiver. This bridge is over the main stream, not far from its confluencewith the East Fork. It was constructed for the benefit of the miners atCook City, on the Clarks Fork, about fifty miles distant, in the Big HornMountains. Its proprietor, Jack Baronette, is one of the most famous guidesand hunters in the country. Leaving the bridge, the trail follows the westside of the Yellowstone, at first quite near the stream, but gradually bearingto the west until Tower Creek is reached.
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TOWER FALLS. TOWER FALLS. 81 Tower Falls.— About three miles south of this bridge, Tower Creek,which is a rapid, snow-fed brook, twelve or fifteen feet wide and one ortwo feet deep, joins the Yellowstone. The creek flows for about ten milesthrough a narrow, rugged and precipitous canon, enclosed by walls 300 to400 feet high. Two hundred yards above its entrance into the Yellowstonethe stream pours over an abrupt descent of 132 feet into a deep, gloomygorge, so narrow that the suns rays scarcely penetrate it. The Falls arenot unlike those of Minnehaha, inasmuch as there is a clear, safe pas-sage between them and the wall behind them, but they have eight or tentimes the mass of water and are three or four times as high. These fallsare surrounded by columns of volcanic breccia, rising fifty feet above them,standing like the towers upon some mediaeval fortress. Describing thesecolumns, Mr. N. P. Langford, first Superintendent of the Park, said : ■ Some resemble towers, others the spir