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timorican, .who lias only 



imagrmcs 



forms are found only 



man 



he fin 



climbed the Matterhoru would hesitate before daring to try Grand 



Teton, According to local report, this peak has been ascended only 



twice, in 1872 and 1894. As the snow-clad mount ams along the 



Alaskan Archipelago, rising to cloud-reaching heights, stand Avith their 



feet bathed in the ocean, so from a viewpoint near Ashton the Tetons, 



towering to the sky, rise from the billowy surface of a sea of golden 



grain. The people who 



within the shadow of these ml 



them only as barometers 

 :he o^randcur that thrills i 



hunt 



Figure 15.— The Three Tetons, looking east. 



Ashton is the junction point of the Victor branch of the Oregon 

 lort Line, which was built to Teton Basui in 1912. On this branch 

 ; miles from Ashton is Marj-svillCj a small rural settlement that can 



from a distance by its orrain elevator. From Marys- 



jnized fron 

 Jenkins all 



in the Teton Moxmtains 



nearly to Ashton. The canyons of Fall River and Squkrel and 



hich the branch lin _ _ 



in rhyolite. It was along Bitch Creek that the ^^Virginian" idM 

 and fished on the day after Steve and Ed, the horse thieves, paid the 

 penalty. Drummond, 1 

 tlements on the branch 



mam 



terminus, is a small viUa 



Teton Range to Jackson Hole, Tliere 



t? 



ilim 



Drigg; 



Ou the west side of the Teton Basin, near Victor, is the 



