MANY-COLORED CANYON

ROM Inspiration Point, looking a thousand feet almost vertically down upon the foaming Yellowstone River, and southward three miles to the Great Falls, the hushed observer sees spread before him the most glorious kaleidoscope of color he will ever see in nature. The steep slopes are inconceivably carved by the frost and the erosion of the ages. Sometimes they lie in straight lines at easy angles, from which jut high rocky prominences. Sometimes they seem carved from the side walls. Here and there jagged rocky needles rise perpendicularly like groups of gothic spires.

And the whole is colored as brokenly and vividly as the field of a kaleidoscope. The whole is streaked and spotted and stratified in every shade from the deepest orange to the faintest lemon, from deep crimson through all the brick shades to the softest pink, from black through all the grays and pearls to glistening white. The greens are furnished by the dark pines above, the lighter shades of growth caught here and there in soft masses on the gentler slopes and the foaming green of the plunging river so far below. The blues, ever changing, are found in the dome of the sky overhead.

ELECTRIC PEAK, A SUPERB LANDMARK OF THE NORTH SIDE Photograph by J. E. Haynes, St. Paul

VIEW FROM MOUNT WASHBURN SHOWING YELLOWSTONE LAKE IN DISTANCE The northern east side is a country of striking and romantic scenery made accessible by excellent roads Copyright by Gifford

TROUTING IN THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER One of the great trout rivers of the world. The fish run large. They are taken with spoon and fly Copyright by Gifford

STANDING UPON ARTIST'S POINT, WHICH PUSHES OUT ALMOST OVER THE FOAMING RIVER A THOUSAND FEET BELOW, THE INCOMPARABLE CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE WIDENS BEFORE YOU INTO THE MOST GLORIOUS KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLOR YOU WILL EVER SEE IN NATURE Copyright by J. E. Haynes, St. Paul