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Title: Wonders of the Yellowstone region in the Rocky Mountains : being a description of its geysers, hot-springs, Grand Canon, waterfalls, lake, and surrounding scenery, explored in 1870-71
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Richardson, James
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Publisher: London Glascow Edinburgh : Blackie & Son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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mbered water-courses,and its long, grassy declivities, dotted with thehabitations of pioneers, and blooming with thefruits of industry. To the eastward lies the beau-tiful Valley of the Yellowstone, not yet laid undertribute to man. On the further side of this valley—the bed of an ancient lake—the eye takes in ata glance one of the most symmetrical and remark-able ranges of mountains in all the West. In-deed, Dr. Hayden says, in describing them : Several of my party who had visited Europeregarded this range as in no way inferior in beautyto any in that far-famed country. A series of cone-shaped peaks, looking like gigantic pyramids, aregrouped along the east side of the valley for thirtyor forty miles, with their bald, dark summits cov- AMERI CAN NATI 0NAL PARK lied I the s uri s ITHE YELLOWSTONE RIVER €£YS£R RECiON Attei the t,ui\eN ot T^ H vdenU S Geoln^jst CeocjraY \ col Tvles ^ Ha qWs Enql sh set laths n fothon scOejso 3 oE net eyse B Bou da ofKialon P K- -HcuydeiisRo U 81
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FORT ELLIS TO BOTTLERS RANCH. 17 ered with perpetual snow, the vegetation growingthinner and smaller as we ascend the almost ver-tical sides, until, long before reaching the summits,it has entirely disappeared. On all sides deepgorges have been gashed out by aqueous forcescutting through the very core of the mountains,and forming those wonderful gulches which onlythe hardy and daring miner has ventured to ex-plore. This range, which is called on the mapsSnowy Mountains, forms the great water-shed be-tween two portions of the Yellowstone River,above and below the first canon, and gives originto some of the most important branches of thatriver. From the summit of Emigrant Peak, oneof the highest of these volcanic cones, one greatmass of these basaltic peaks can be seen as far asthe eye can reach, rising to the height of 10,000 to11,000 feet above the sea. Emigrant Peak, thebase of which is cut by the Yellowstone Eiver, is10,629 feet above tide-water, while the valleyplain near Bottlers

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