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Title: Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1849-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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journey of this kind. Everything being ready, we take our places in theleading coach as before. (These coaches are calledthe Thorough Brace Concord, and are made inConcord, N. H.) The day is cool and crisp, the airdelightful, and we are a cheerful, healthy company. Our first stop is at the Upper Geyser Basin, whichwe visited a few days ago. Here we are so for-tunate as to witness an eruption of the Castle Gey-ser—a wonderful spectacle, which we observe withbreathless interest, the coach waiting meanwhile. Another piece of good luck is the play of OldFaithful. Surely the Patriarch must have known ofour departure from this region, and timed his exhibi-tion accordingly. We do not fail to stop for him. A mile and a half farther we are introduced to theKeppler Cascade, whose waters leap from a heightof from a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet,forming a succession of falls over rocky ledges,picturesque and beautiful. The cascade is framedin the dark green forest which affords a charming
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Yellowstone Lake and Grand Canon 367 contrast to its foamy torrent. We all shoot therapids with our cameras. Along the FireholeCanon we wend our way amid scenes so wild andenchanting that I long to reproduce them with mycamera, though neither pen nor photograph can dojustice to their brilliant beauty. It is about eleven oclock when we reach theContinental Divide on the Pacific side, at an altitudeof 8,240 feet. Here we see the lovely Isa Lake en-closed in the rocky mountain pass, 500 feet inlength. Crossing the Divide through Craig Pass,we descend about 340 feet in the next two milesalong the slopes of Corkscrew Hill. How well thename fits this rugged height, travellers over thisroad know only too well. Our experienced driversmiles as he hears the exclamations of his pas-sengers when he makes a sudden turn in the road,close to the edgeof the precipice. He tells me thathe does this to make the drive a little exciting: ifso, he certainly attains his object. Apropos of this locality, he

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