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 (14596082740)

Identifier: threewonderlands00murp (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler), 1866-1928
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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he Holy Cross, with its solemnemblem graven in the eternal snows; the RoyalGorge, the Tolte Gorge, Black Canyon andGrand River Canyon, with walls rising twothousand feet almost sheer, and numberlessother natural phenomena not less interesting 162 Oil- ^^^ can West i am weii aware mai m mese monographsconcerning the Yellowstone, the Yosemite andthe Grand Canyon I have given by no means anexhaustive catalogue of the v^onders of the greatJ^. Fo go into detail in describing the i.^^x a of our country of which thx, ^ form the eastern boundary Vv ^^ volumes even if the story were toL In Colorado alone there is a world oi be ^d grandeur, ■ ~ Peak—tb •• - - ^j^^^ Garden of ods—thai . . - f^worn stones hi a take a thousand fa. forms; tht itain of the Holy Cross, with its solemn m graven in the eternal snows; the Royal :>;ge, the Tolte;! Gorge, Black Canyon and Crprid River Canyon, with walls rising tw and feet almost sheer, and numberk; , natural phenomena not less interesting 162
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TOLTE GORGE, COLORADO From the Original Painting by Thomas Moran, N. A. OTHER WONDERS may well engage the attention of the tourist. And who by mere words can convey anyhint of the charm of the land of flowers and sun-shine, California, toward which our longingsturn almost whether we will or no and where—some time—we hope to dwell ourselves? Whatsave our senses can bring any true realizationof the languorous beauty and awe-inspiringmajesty of the limitless ocean, whose blue watersripple over golden beaches or sparkle undertowering cliffs along all the thousand miles ofsinuous coast that marks our western boundary? As for myself, I can find no words todescribe the mingled feelings that the sight ofthe Pacific Ocean never fails to arouse in me.Indeed, one may say that he can see but a littleof the ocean at one time, and so far as our limitedvision goes, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, theMexican Gulf or the Pacific have no distinguish-ing marks. And yet, what a different sensationon