Tours to the Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast - August 6, September 3, 1907 (1907) (14737974126)

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Title: Tours to the Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast : August 6, September 3, 1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) : Pennsylvania Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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every colorof the rainbow. It is not until the tourist arrives at the UpperBasin, however, that he reaches the real home ofthe genus geyser. Here are fifteen examples of thefirst magnitude, besides scores of less importantones, and here they hold high carnival. The Grotto,the Splendid, the Giant, the Castle, the Lion, theGiantess, and the Bee Hive are located here; andhere also stands Old Faithful, whose hourly eruptionaffords the visitor, however transient, an oppor-tunity of witnessing at least one geyser in action.To it fell the honor of welcoming civilized man tothis remarkable region, for when the Washburnparty, from a dense forest, which concealed every-thing around them beyond a radius of a few hun-dred feet, emerged suddenly into an open, treelessvalley, there, directly in front of them, scarcelytwo hundred yards away, stood the verticalcolumn of Old Faithful, shooting 150 feet intothe air; and then it was that the old geyserreceived its name. It is estimated that this ^!Wvr;
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LOWER FAT, LS OF THE YELLOWSTON: 30 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The geyser alone ejects over thirty-three million gal-Yellowstone Ions of water daily. Park pj^e most beautiful geyser in the whole region,however, is the Bee Hive. While not so grand andpowerful as some of the others, from an artisticpoint of view it is the most perfect geyser in thePark. About eight miles beyond the Upper GeyserBasin the road crosses the Continental Divide, andthen for a distance of about ten miles lies on thePacific Slope. From Shoshone Point a glimpsemay be had of Shoshone Lake, quietly nestledamong the mountains, and far away to the southmay be seen the towering peaks of the greatTetons. At Lake View a sharp turn in the forest roadbrings the tourist suddenly in full view of one ofthe most striking panoramas in the world.Immediately before him, 300 feet below, lies thebeautiful Yellowstone Lake. Beyond, far awayalong the eastern horizon, rise the Absaroka Moun-tains, while on every hand the dark pine f