. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. KINGS OF THE PLATFORM AND PULPIT. Salt Lake City is fifty-five miles behind us—and this is Echo Ca^on, inreaching which we are supposed to have crossed the summit of the Wah-satch mountains. These ochre-colored bluffs formed of conglom-erate sandstone, and full of .fossils signal the entrance to the canon. At its base lies Weber Station. Echo Cafion is about twenty-five miles long. It is really the sublim-est thing between the Missouri and the Sierra Nevada. The red wall to

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