Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . I n/iyi ii//il by Knit) Hr SKELETON FOUND l.\ THE (.RAND CANYON THE GATEWAY OF ALL THE CANYONS 23 walls sloped back considerably at first, and there was alittle shore on either side. Somewhere near this point runs the dividing line ofWyoming and Utah. We considered the gateway a subject worthy of amotion picture, if taken from the deck of the boat; butdoubted if it would be a success owing to the conditionof the light and the motion of th
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . I n/iyi ii//il by Knit) Hr SKELETON FOUND l.\ THE (.RAND CANYON THE GATEWAY OF ALL THE CANYONS 23 walls sloped back considerably at first, and there was alittle shore on either side. Somewhere near this point runs the dividing line ofWyoming and Utah. We considered the gateway a subject worthy of amotion picture, if taken from the deck of the boat; butdoubted if it would be a success owing to the conditionof the light and the motion of the boat. Still it wasconsidered worthy of a trial, and the film was run colour of the rocks at the entrance was a light red,but not out of the ordinary in brilliancy. The rockformation was stratified, but displaced; standing at anangle and flexed over on top with a ragged break here andthere, showing plainly the great pressure to which therocks had been subjected. The upheaval was not violent,the scientists tell us, but slow and even, allowing theriver to maintain its old channel, sawing its way throughthe sandstone. The broken canyon walls
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