. 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. ECHO caSon. the left d
. 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. ECHO caSon. the left develops farther up the eaflon into pyramids, buttresses and cas-tles honeycombed and fretted in natures own massive magnificence of architecture. In 1856 Echo Cafion was the place selected by Brigham Young forthe Mormon General Wells to fortify and make impregnable against theadvance of the American army, led by General Albert Sidney Johnston. It was to have been the Thermopylae of Mormondom but it wasnt. General Wells was to have done Leonidas but he didnt.
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