Chapter I: Front Matter

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*HISTORICAL FINE ART SERIES.*

“GLIMPSES OF AMERICA”
A PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE HISTORY OF
Our Country’s Scenic Marvels,
DELINEATED BY PEN AND CAMERA.

By J. W. BUEL,

Who, in a Special Photograph Car
and accompanied by a corps of accomplished Artists,
visited every part of the United States and Canada,
to picture and describe all the wonderful scenery found therein.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PICTURESQUE WONDERLANDS OF NORTH AMERICA.

From Regions of Perpetual Ice to Lands of Perennial Sunshine.

PUBLISHED BY
HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
PHILADELPHIA.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year
1894, by
H. S. SMITH,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington, D. C.
All rights reserved.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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THE SUBLIMELY GRAND AND INCOMPARABLE SCENERY OF AMERICA.—
Picturesque lands and places of other countries—Engagement
of a corps of Photographers—Equipment of our Camera car—A
trip to the Rocky Mountains—Hasty resumé of the pictorial
districts visited—From summer climes to Alaska’s glacial
shores—Excursions by car, stage, donkey and foot—
Educational benefits of the tour—The work one of patriotic
incitement, 6-16

CHAPTER I.

AMONG THE WILD SCENES OF COLORADO.—Through the Gateway of
the Rockies—Wondrous visions—In the cañons of Bear Creek—
Colossal cleavage of Clear Creek—A submerged forest of
petrified trees—Among the clouds—Devil’s Gate to Bridal
Veil Falls—The Loop at Georgetown—Silver Flume—Cornucopias
of silver—Over the switchback to silver lands—Between
towering crags—Terrific convulsions of nature—Dome Rock—
Invocation of surging waters—The highest point ever
reached by rail—A marvelous tunnel—An astounding view—
Through Boulder Cañon and into North Park—A tour of Estes
Park—Visits to Long’s Peak and Bald Mountain—Wild game in
savage haunts—Climbing the American Matterhorn—Bewildering
prospect from the “key-hole”—A trip to Table Mountain and
examination of the glaciers—A journey through Middle Park—
A story of Grand Lake—Away up on a dizzy brink, 17-40

CHAPTER II.

MANITOU THE MIGHTY.—Twin cities that sit at the feet of
Pike’s Peak—A spell of wonderment wrought by the
eccentricities of nature—God’s acres of tumultuous stone—
The story of Major Pike’s discovery—The first ascent of
Pike’s Peak—The cog-wheel railroad to the summit—A trip to
cloud-land—The wonderful panorama to be surveyed from the
peak—A battalion of mountains in review—A storm on the
mountain—Ute Pass to Cascade Cañon—Rainbow Falls and Grand
Caverns—From the Cave-of-the-Winds down William’s Cañon—
Garden of the Gods—Nature in wild riot of gruesome forms
and sublime creations—Through Glen Eyrie and Monument
Park—Witcheries that confound imagination—A visit to
Cheyenne Cañon—Seven Falls—Entrancing hymns of nature—
Legends of the Manitou, 41-62

CHAPTER III.

GRAND CAÑONS OF WESTERN RIVERS.—A land of graceful, deep-
leaping waterfalls—A park of marvelous petrifactions—Buena
Vista, the beautiful view—Sportsmen’s Paradise—Through
Hagerman Tunnel to Mount of the Holy Cross—Grand River
Cañon—Sixteen miles of natural wonders—The Grand Cañon of
the Colorado—Major Powell’s Trip from Green River to Yuma—
A perilous journey richly recompensed—Flaming Gorge and
Horseshoe Cañons—Tossed by dangerous rapids into halls and
temples carved by Titans—In a chasm 7,000 feet deep—
Caverns of Enchantment and walls flecked with rainbow
colors—A borderland of phantasy—Cave habitations of an
extinct race—Story of the hunted refugees—Vermilion
Cliffs, Temples of the Virgin and Marble Cañon—Glories
that thrill the heart with ecstasy, and fill the soul with
reverence, 63-84

CHAPTER IV.

MARVELS OF THE GREAT DESERT.—Magnificence of the scenery
along Grand River—From mountain to plain—Beautiful Provo
Falls—Our great inland sea—Fruitfulness of Salt Lake
Valley—A wall of mountains around Salt Lake—Shores of
ancient Lake Bonneville, now America’s Dead Sea—Islands of
Salt Lake—The Mormon City and how it was founded—Red Butte
and Emigrant Cañons—Garfield Beach and Giant’s Cave—Echo
and Weber Cañons—Valleys of marvelous diversity—The
Devil’s Slide and the Witches’ Playground—Beaver River
Gulch and scenic wonders about Ogden—A trip across the
creviced lava fields of Idaho—The magnitude and awfulness
of Shoshone Falls—A second Niagara in the desert—Twin,
Cascade and Bridal Veil Falls—A realistic description of
this incomparable wonderland, 85-112

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