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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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fingthe giant pines that crowd about its foot. Alittle farther, on the opposite side of the valley,Bridal Veil Fall, now shrunken to a silveryribbon, drops its tenuous thread from a cliff athousand feet above us. Then wonders begin tocrowd upon us from every direction. CathedralRocks—vast sculptured twin spires, one of themrising sheer and solitary for seven hundred feet—pierce the skies twenty-six hundred feet aboveus, seemingly laughing to scorn the efforts ofany mortal architect. Standing side by sidethey have resemblance — perhaps somewhatfancied—to the splendid facade of the Duomo ofFlorence. Then the Three Brothers greet ourvision, and just above us we behold El Capitanfrom an even more impressive viewpoint.Yonder is Sentinel Rock, thrusting its ruggedspire high in the heavens, and we see throughthe pines the effect of Mr. Morans masterlypicture, save that the rock looms bald andglaring in the noonday sun—not tinged withthe purple evening shadows of the artists more 64
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f:L CAPITAN, YOSEMITE VALLEYCourtesy Southern Pacific Railway THE YOSEMITE poetic rendering. Behind it is Sentinel Dome,one of the strange spherical glacier-scarpedpeaks of which we are to see several before weleave the valley. Ere we have recovered from our astonish-ment and while still quite overwhelmed with thedisplay of wonders on every hand, we arriveat the end of our first days journey. The coachleaves some of its passengers at the camps, butseveral go on to the old-fashioned SentinelHotel that for forty years has afforded shelterand good cheer to Yosemite travelers. It is a rambling wooden structure situatedin the pleasantest spot in the valley. Its veran-das to the rear overhang the clear waters of theriver and a school of trout often flits aboutbeneath your eye—too well fed, however, to beeasily tempted by hook and line. About three-quarters of a mile distant there is a full viewof Yosemite Fall, the highest cataract in theworld, which has a sheer drop of sixteen hun-dred f

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