Identifier: sightsscenesini00unio (find matches)
Title: Sights and scenes in Idaho and Montana for tourists ..
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Union Pacific railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago, Press of Knight, Leonard & co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the valley of HenrysFork—a marvel of beauty and freshness. The upperportion, for an extent of twenty to twenty-five milesin length and from five to ten miles in width, is likea meadow, covered with a luxuriant growth of grass,while flowing from the lake and winding through themiddle of the valley, receiving on either side numer-ous branches, is Henrys Fork. Still farther south-ward is a dense black mass of pines, and just on thedim horizon, more than one hundred miles distant, isthe range of mountains that forms one side of theSnake River Basin near Fort Hall. Xorth of this isthe wonderful Teton Basin which is also like ameadow. To the southeast the shark-teeth summitsof the Grand Tetons are most conspicuous and clearlydefined, rising so high above all the other peaks thatthey stand isolated, monarchs of all. TAHGEF PASS OR TYGHEE. Tyghee Pass, named many years ago after the headchief of the Bannock tribe of Indians, leads thetraveler out of the Snake River Valley up over hill:, 41
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LONE STAR GEYSER, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Reached via the Union Pacific System. densely wooded, toward the south fork of the Madison.Hardly lias the ascent began ore he is among grovesof cloud-like trembling aspen, whose green and silverleaves, shield-shaped, give a peculiar delicacy of col-oring to the scenes. The mountains on either handare rugged and unique in form. At one place welook into a narrow side glen lorded over by a massiveterraced peak, and at another three conical, butte-likemountains catch the sight, so densely covered withtimber that it is impossible for the eye to distinguishany separate tree from out the mass, and all the treesof such a uniform height that their green tops makethe mountains look as if only grass covered. At thesummit of the pass we are on the ridge of the greatwatershed of the continent—the springs on one handflowing down toward the Atlantic Ocean and on theother toward the Pacific, amid grasses and tangledfern, but a short distance apart, spri

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