This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...cities are Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reno, Nev. Scenery. This group of states is full of so many scenes of beauty and wonder that only a few can be mentioned here. more than two hundred feet and pour out an enormous volume of steam and boiling water. The Yellowstone Canyon, which is deeply cut into a great mass of many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...cities are Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reno, Nev. Scenery. This group of states is full of so many scenes of beauty and wonder that only a few can be mentioned here. more than two hundred feet and pour out an enormous volume of steam and boiling water. The Yellowstone Canyon, which is deeply cut into a great mass of many-colored rocks, is also an object of marvelous beauty and interest. (See Fig. 191.) The park is now preserved under the care of the National Government, and as no shooting is allowed, wild animals, such as wild geese, beavers, bears, and deer, are very numerous. (See Fig. 192.) Great Salt Lake, in Utah, is another natural feature which deserves mention. This lake is all that is left of a former fresh-water lake which has dried away. The water that remains is so salt that a man can float in it like a cork. (See Fig. 195.) The bottom of the old lake was covered by detritus carried into the lake by the old rivers. This detritus, like the fine muds of the Mississippi plain, forms very rich soil F1g. 196. A Moki Indian of Arizona carrying water in a basket-work bottle. for agriculture. By means of irrigation ditches, water is brought from the mountain streams to the rich soil, so that large crops are easily raised and the region about Salt Lake City has long been very prosperous. Owing to the dryness of the air, these states are nearly all famous as health resorts, and are visited yearly by great numbers of people from the eastern states. Colorado and Glenwood Springs, Colo., and Las Vegas, N. Mex., are the best known. The mountains of Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, and Wyoming are all very F1g. 198. The town of Manilou, Colorado, situated near Colorado Springs high up in the Reeky Mountains. grand (see Fig. 194); they are also interesting because ...
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