Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . come weird pyramids and towers,vast, ill-defined and unreal; the somber pineshide unimaginable mysteries; every nook andcranny of the sinuous shore line is peopled withghostly habitants; one becomes oblivious of theinn and his fellow-beings and imagines himselfthe first human being who has ever beheld theentrancing scene. He beholds YellowstoneLake, virginal, u
Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West . come weird pyramids and towers,vast, ill-defined and unreal; the somber pineshide unimaginable mysteries; every nook andcranny of the sinuous shore line is peopled withghostly habitants; one becomes oblivious of theinn and his fellow-beings and imagines himselfthe first human being who has ever beheld theentrancing scene. He beholds YellowstoneLake, virginal, undiscovered, alone—in the heartof an unknown wonderland. But I awaken to the fact that I am quitealone in my contemplation of the glories of thesunset and moonrise on the lake; except for afew stragglers the guests have disappeared. Adozen or more bears in the grove to the rear ofthe hotel have proven a greater drawing cardthan the scene which inspires my ecstacies—andI may as well plead guilty myself to giving agood part of the evening to watching the anticsof these uncouth denizens of the Park. There are other fine lakes in the vicinity,though much smaller and not on the regularroute of travel. Shoshone, Lewis and Heart 26. THE YELLOWSTONE Lakes are of considerable size—like perfectgems set in the encircling hills. From TetonPoint the tourist gets a fine view of ShoshoneLake. It is about seven miles long and fromone to three in width. Its shores are mostpicturesque and a rather rough road leadsaround it from Upper Basin, passing through agroup of geysers at the western end of the lake. The drive from Lake Hotel to the canyontakes one through as peaceful and quiet a bit oflandscape as may be found in the Park. Theweird mud volcano, some fifty feet in diameter,a great seething caldron of boiling mud, uncannyand malodorous, is the only notable evidence ofgeyser action in the twenty miles; there are nostartling phenomena aside from this along theway. Just a splendid road wi
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