Yellowstone National Park - America's only geyser land (1913) (14763331714)

Identifier: yellowstonenatio254nort (find matches)
Title: Yellowstone National Park : America's only geyser land
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railway Company
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Publisher: (Saint Paul? Minn.) : Northern Pacific Railway
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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A BOUT one mile below Tower Fall the new road from the Grand Can-AA yon to Mammoth Hot Springs is carried along the base of a notablelava cliff. The cliff, or precipice, borders the Yellowstone River atthe foot of the Grand Canyon, where the canyon itself is of a peculiarlynovel and striking character. The road was blasted out of the palisades,which tower a thousand feet overhead. Nature has been most lavish inthe treasures it discloses at this particular locality. Among them are lavatowers, or monoliths, scattered along the canyon at base of the palisades.
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HIDDEN away in one of the most secluded and romantic nooks in thepark, this beautiful fall, 132 feet in height, for unnumbered centuries,perhaps, has been pouring its whitened waters over a lava preci-pice, almost unknown and unsung. So completely concealed and guardedin its cool rocky dell by towers, spires, and rock needles, that its pres-ence is wholly unsuspected by the usual observer, there is, as LieutenantDoane wrote, nothing more chastely beautiful than this lovely cascade.It was discovered by the Washburn-Doane party in 1870.