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To Geyserland Union Pacific-Oregon Short Line Railroads to the Yellowstone National Park - Edward F. Colborn
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Title: To Geyserland
Union Pacific-Oregon Short Line Railroads to the Yellowstone
National Park
Author: Edward F. Colborn
Release Date: December 19, 2012 [EBook #41657]
Language: English
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GEYSERLAND
The Way in and Out
The Scenery
Coaching in the Park
Park Regulations and Improvements
The Geysers
Old Faithful
The Canyon and Falls of the Yellowstone
GEYSER TIME TABLE
A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT POOLS AND SPRINGS
The Mammoth Hot Springs
The Tame Wild Animals
The Inns
The Stage Line
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK FARES
Railroad Contact Information
Copyright 1910 by Oregon Short Line
Text by Edward F. Colborn Photos by F. J. Haynes
To Geyserland
UNION PACIFIC—OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROADS TO THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Connecting with Transcontinental Trains from all points East and West thence through the Park by the four-horse Concord coaches of the
M-Y STAGE COMPANY
The Great Falls of the Yellowstone larger
GEYSERLAND
Where in confusion canyons and mountains and swift running rivers with painted banks abound, and elk and deer, buffalo and bear range through the wilds unterrified by man and gun, and tall, straight pines in almost unbroken forests plant their feet in a tangle of down-timber that centuries were required to produce; where in the earth there are vents through which roar and rush at exact intervals columns of boiling water, sometimes more than two hundred feet high, or in which painted mud blubbers and spurts; where pools by thousands at scalding heat boil and murmur; where under one's feet is felt the hollow of the earth and through hundreds of holes of unfathomable depth come deep growls of Nature in her confinement; where dyes have been daubed in delirium on hillsides and river's brink; where a canyon gashes the earth thousands of feet through colors so vivid and varied that no record can write them down; where one of the highest navigable