Identifier: descriptionofwes02unio (find matches)
Title: A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route."
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects:
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally & co., printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ore effective by contrast the deep red which strikes the dominant chord of thepicture; and always, as you look through or above, to catch the stormy bil- lows of the giant mountain range, tossed against the sky, with the regal, snow- crowned massiveness of Pikes Peak rising over all, is something, once seen, never to be forgotten. Strange, grotesque shapes, mammoth caricatures of animals, clamber, crouch, or spring from vantage points hundreds of feet in air. Here a battlemented wall is pierced by a round window; there a clusterof slender spires lift themselves; beyond, a leaning tower slants through theblue air, or a cube as large as a dwelling-house is balanced on a pivot-like point at the base, as if a childs strength could upset it. Imagine all this, scintillant with color, set under a dazzling sapphire dome, with the silver stems and delicate frondage of young cottonwoods in one space, or a strong young hemlock lifting green symmetrical arms from some high rocky cliff in another.
Text Appearing After Image:
U40J APPENDIX. 141 This can be told; but the massiveness of sky-piled masonry, the almost infernal mixture of grandeur and grotesqueness, are beyond expression. After the first few moments of wild exclamation one sinks into an awed silence. The reader must see for himself these grotesque monuments, these relics of ruined strata, these sportive, wind-cut ghosts of the old regime, these fanciful images• of things seen and unseen, which stand thickly over hundreds of acres like the mouldering ruins of some half-buried city of the desert, if he would fullyunderstand. Going southward from Colorado Springs, a series of grand perspectivesattract and charm the tourist. Nature here is in her most majestic mood; thereis little of tenderness or delicate carving; these ghastly rents and seams aretragic, and the grandeur of these mountain gorges is terrible and awesome,rather than beautiful. Some of these lonely spots remind one of Dores appall-ing pictures of the Inferno. The next town of promi

Note About Images