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 . fall,but a sight of unmatched grandeur and beauty,made the more impressive by the great LibertyCap, an odd granite cone rising two thousandfeet from the pool at its base. Just back of thefall stands Mount Broderick, while Half Domenear at hand looks majestically down upon theroaring flood. And this same Half Dome is the glory ofGlacier Point Trail, if not indee
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 . fall,but a sight of unmatched grandeur and beauty,made the more impressive by the great LibertyCap, an odd granite cone rising two thousandfeet from the pool at its base. Just back of thefall stands Mount Broderick, while Half Domenear at hand looks majestically down upon theroaring flood. And this same Half Dome is the glory ofGlacier Point Trail, if not indeed of the direction our path twisted we stillbeheld this bald, awful mountain flinging itsrounded summit, dazzling white, against a clearsky of intensest blue. It overshadows anddominates everything and one can scarce repressan earnest longing to stand on its dreadfulsummit and view the marvelous scene was on the Half Dome once, said the is a flat space of more than eight acres,though it doesnt look it from here. I wasseized with a happy idea—Some day there willbe a great hotel on Half Dome. Vernal Fallwill furnish power to run elevators throughtunnels to the top. The guide looked at me 72. VERNAL FALLS, YOSEMITE VALLE1Courtesy Santa Fe Railway THE YOSEMITE in amazement and finally said in a sympathetictone, Im a-thinking a fellow would be a littleweak in his upper story to talk of a hotel onHalf Dome. One will be quite ready for dinner when hereaches Glacier Point Hotel. The last fewmiles of the trail are devoid of much interest;there is little of importance save the yawningcanyon of the Illilouette—which, were it notin a land so replete with greater wonders,would be worth a long pilgrimage of itself—andthe fall of this beautiful stream, which dartsdown a five-hundred-foot precipice. For somedistance the trail closely hugs the edge of thecanyon, then crosses a rustic bridge and the finalascent is begun through a dense growth ofchinqua
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