. To Geyserland : Oregon Short Line Railroad 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 . aps, forms the stately fountain that plays for three minutes andthen slowly sinks into the earth to await its time to rise again. Sometimes the winds unfold from its top aniridescent banner of spray; but more often the fountain form is a perfect cone. Old Faithful plays every seventy minutes and never disappoints. Visitors to the Park may therefore seeit under va
. To Geyserland : Oregon Short Line Railroad 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 . aps, forms the stately fountain that plays for three minutes andthen slowly sinks into the earth to await its time to rise again. Sometimes the winds unfold from its top aniridescent banner of spray; but more often the fountain form is a perfect cone. Old Faithful plays every seventy minutes and never disappoints. Visitors to the Park may therefore seeit under various conditions of light. In the daytime, under the sun, it glistens and gleams with prismatic hues;but the most enchanting hour to witness its performance is that when night is falling when the dusk isaround it, and the last faint tints of the sun linger in the sky. Then it is a spectre in ghostly white standingagainst the sombre background of the wilderness -a sight strange and startling and never to be forgotten. It has long been the custom at Old Faithful Inn to flood the geyser at night with the rays of a the spectacle takes on new features all the rainbow hues are there, and looking through the fountain. ■/r- 3mb 7/ie Greaf Fa//s from Point Looki rTni The Canyon and Falls of the Yellowstone along the sweep of light, one sees a bediamonded form more beautiful than any ever wrought by the handsof the Ice King. Verily, Old Faithful is one of the most wonderful presentations in all the repertoire of Nature. HE Canyon and Falls of the Yellowstone beggar description. They are twin wonders in aWonderland. Is there any other gorge as gorgeous as that Canyon? With such gaiety ofcoloring with such delicate and lovely shades of yellows and reds, purples and pinks, greensand crimsons, all commingling in harmony from the green-fringed brink, down, down thecraggy sides into sombre depths where the writhing, gleaming ribbon of river thousandsof feet below, plunges al
Size: 2038px × 1226px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidtogeyserland, bookyear1910
