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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
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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STAGE LINE OVER MOSQUITO PASS, ranches dot the receding levels. Unexpected tints develop withevery foot of progress. The feelings of the moment admit of norecord. As timber line is approached there is something awful inthe grandeur. The mountains tower lifeless and sombre. Even thetrees are dead and standing gaunt and fire scarred. Far below astream crooks itself along the valley. At Boreas, 11,496 feet abovethe sea, the summit is reached. From this point the view is sublimeand full of warmth. The trees are dense and luxuriant. Their pineyodor fills the summer air. Ten Mile range rises in the near distance 286 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST,
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ponderous and pure under its snow. You are looking down thevalley of the Blue, by many considered the loveliest encompassed bythe Rockies. Over it is a blue-gray mist like a veil, that parts at thetouch of the sun. Mines in every direction place romance and reality MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE. 287 hand in hand. The Atlantic Slope fades from sight. An old Utetrail can just be discerned on the banks of the stream, lost now andagain in the trees. Pacific Peak frowns down snowily, heedless thatsummer winds are playing about its base. It is full of silver andgold, and men are delving for it. The illustration affords the reader a fine view of the railway in itsupward course to the mountain summit, winding about among thepeaks, which are marvellous in size and numbers, until the laboringlocomotive halts like a conqueror upon the crest. The writer quoted speaks of timber line. Timber line is the

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