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Title: To Geyserland : Oregon Short Line Railroad to the Yellowstone National Park : connecting with transcontinental trains from all points east and west thence through the park by the four-horse Concord coaches of the M-Y Stage Company
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Colborn, Edward F Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
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Publisher: (United States) : Oregon Short Line
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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d colors—blues, greens, purples, reds—down their deep sidesand in the wonderful tracery about their rims, so blended, so beautiful that one may well believe that allthe paints on the palette of the Master were commingled in their decoration. One blubbers and gurgles and grumbles awhile, and then with an angry roar lifts a great column ofmud into the air. Another steams and growls through an orifice hundreds of feet wide in seeming angryspite that years ago it blew out its throat and ceased to gush forever.* But the geysers that most attractare the regular-timed spouting wonders —the Giant and Giantess, Old Faithful, the Grand, the Fountain,the Castle and others whose names mark the geography of the Park. *In 1888, Excelsior, then the greatest geyser in the known world, while playing with unusual vigor, ruptured its crater andhas never spouted since. In its former periods of activity it is said to have raised the Firehole river seven feet in as many minuteswith its waters. (Ed. )
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The Geysers They are variously located in three distinct basins which are far enough apart to give the traveler bystage a few geysers with each days entertainment. These basins are great wastes of a white depositioncalled in Park vernacular the formation under which must be boiling one of the mighty cauldrons of theearth, for one can feel under foot a tremble, and can hear through a hundred orifices the hiss of steam andthe angry murmur of the waters below. The coming and going of the geysers is an astonishing and awe-inspiring spectacle, and so accuratelytimed and so certain to perform are they, that no one need miss the experience. The geyser passive is ahole at the summit of a cone. The cone rises gradually from the plane of the formation and, ragged anddeep, growls hoarsely and steams fitfully. Thus it is a moment before its time for activity, and then comesthe geyser active. There is a loud preliminary roar and then suddenly, with a rush and power almostterrifying, a white obelis

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