File:Marvels of the new West - a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River - comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels (14764768965).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,136 × 1,616 pixels, file size: 723 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English:

Identifier: marvelsofnewwest1889thay (find matches)
Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
Subjects:
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
red with pinon, and the slope with yellowpine, Douglas spruce, the western balsam fir, and the quaking-cap.The view from the summit was particularly fine, sweeping a circle offifty miles radius, except towards the buttes, which are very near,and fill the northeastern horizon. 1 These ancient races are treated at length in Part II. of this volume. 50 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. Macomb says : * Everywhere over the second plateau are scat-tered buttes and pinnacles, wrought, from the massive calcareoussandstone and the overlying Saurian beds, by the erosion which hasswept from the surface all traces but these of the immense mass ofsedimentary rocks which once covered it. Of these, one of themost striking, seen from our route, is the Casa Colorado. It is adetached butte, some three hundred and sixty feet high, composed ofsandstone covered with the harder layers of the Saurian beds. An-,other symmetrical and beautiful dome, composed of the same mate-rials, is lemon-yellow, with a base of red.
Text Appearing After Image:
CASA COLORADO BUTT: Macomb examined this butte (in New Mexico) in 1859, when onhis expedition from 3a.nta Fe to the junction of Grand and Greenrivers for the United States Government. It will be observed thatthe height of the butte is just that of Bunker Hill Monument. Captain Macomb writes : From the pinnacle on which we stoodthe eyes swept over an area some fifty miles in diameter, everywheremarked by features of more than ordinary interest ; lofty lines ofmassive mesas rising in successive steps to and from the frame ofthe picture, the interval between them more than two thousand feetbelow their summits. A great basin or sunken plain lay stretched MARVELS OF NATURE. 51 out before me as on a map. Not a particle of vegetation was any-where discernible ; nothing but bare and barren rocks of rich andvaried colors, shimmering in the sunlight. Scattered over the plainwere thousands of the fantastically formed buttes to which I haveso often referred in my notes ; pyramids, domes, towers,

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14764768965/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
  • bookid:marvelsofnewwest1889thay
  • bookyear:1887
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Thayer__William_Makepeace__1820_1898
  • bookpublisher:Norwich__Conn____Henry_Bill_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
  • bookleafnumber:91
  • bookcollection:yellowstonebrighamyounguniv
  • bookcollection:brigham_young_university
  • bookcollection:americana
Flickr posted date
InfoField
28 July 2014
The categories of this image need checking. You can do so here.
  • Please remove redundant categories and try to put this image in the most specific category/categories.
  • You can remove this template by clicking here (or on the first line).



Licensing[edit]

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14764768965. It was reviewed on 31 October 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

31 October 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current10:55, 31 October 2015Thumbnail for version as of 10:55, 31 October 20152,136 × 1,616 (723 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': marvelsofnewwest1889thay ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Fmarvelsofnewwest1889thay%2F...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Marvels_of_the_new_West_-_a_vivid_portrayal_of_the_stupendous_marvels_in_the_vast_wonderland_west_of_the_Missouri_River_-_comprising_marvels_of_nature,_marvels_of_race,_marvels_of_enterprise,_marvels_(14764768965).jpg&oldid=860124699"