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Title: Wonderland, or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska : with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Hyde, John, 1848-1929 Northern Pacific Railroad Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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country, and having long cherished adesire to see its wonders in their winter garb, as well as to have an opportunityof reproducing them with that fidelity to nature for which his work is so wellknown, Mr. Haynes determined not to be foiled in his purpose by the inabilityof his leader and the unwillingness of other members of the party to leave theNorris Geyser Basin ; and so, accompanied only by two packers, wearing, likehimself, the eight-feet-long snow-shoes known in Northern Europe as skier,he continued his journey, and made the entire circuit of the Park, and, althoughovertaken on Mount Washburn by a terrific blizzard, and without food, fire orshelter for nearly three days, with the temperature 40° below zero, succeededin getting back to civilization without having to sacrifice the wonderfully beau-tiful series of views he had secured, illustrative of the remarkable effectsbrought about by that extraordinary conflict of heat and cold which he had hadthe good fortune to witness.
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(32) WONDERLAND. 33 It now only remains to be added that the roads in the Park have been con-structed by military engineers, and are kept in excellent condition ; that com-fortable hotel accommodations are provided at the principal points of interest ;and that the hotel rates and transportation charges are all regulated by theSecretary of the Interior. It may be well, however, to remind the angler, in conclusion, that this is thefar-famed region where the juxtaposition of streams of hot and cold waterenables him to cook his fish as fast as he can catch them, without changing hisposition or removing them from the hook. WESTWARD STILL. Resuming his westward journey at Livingston, the traveler is soon ascendingthe first of the great mountain barriers that had to be surmounted by theengineers of the Northern Pacific Railroad. This is the Belt Range, which iscrossed twelve miles from Livingston, at the comparatively low elevation of5,565 feet. Considerable mountain climbing has been avoide

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