The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska

· 1895

Itinerary.—St. Paul.—The Northern Pacific Railroad.— Progress.—Luxurious Traveling.—Riding on a Locomotive.— Night Experiences.—Prairie Scenes.—Immense Grain-Fields.— The Badlands.—Climbing the Rocky Mountains.—Cinnabar.—The Yellowstone Park.—An Accumulation of Wonders.—The Famous Hot Springs Terrace.—How Formed.—As seen by Moonlight 1 Nature in Poetic Moods.—Is there Lurking Danger?—A Sanitarium.—The Liberty Cap.—The Giant’s Thumb.—Singular Caves.—Falls of the Gardiner River.—In the Saddle.—Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone.—Far-Reaching Antiquity.—Obsidian Cliffs.—A Road of Glass.—Beaver Lake.—Animal Builders.— Aborigines of the Park.—The Sheep-Eaters.—The Shoshones and other Tribes 20…

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