OBEGON SHORT lAWE — 0GDE:N^ TO YELLOWSTONE. 



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The most prominent rock folding 

 about 2^ miles above The Hermitag 

 is crumpled into a 2 fold, measuring 

 bottom bars, which are about half a 



H 



It can be seen plainly 

 from the south bank of the reservoh-. (See PI. XXVI, A, p. 100.) 

 This great wrinkle was made by the shoving of one mass of rocks over 

 another during the formation of the momitain range. 



At the upper end of Ogden Canyon, 10 miles from the city, is 

 Ogden Hole or Ogden Valley, which, when Lake Bonneville reached 



small 



m Ogden Canyon. 



OGDEN, UTAH, TO YELLOWSTONE, MONT. 



The route described in the following pages covers a distance of 291 

 miles on the Oregon Short Line Railroad from Ogden, Utah, across 

 southeastern Idaho to Yellows 

 Yellowstone National Park/ 

 3,348 square miles. 



one, Mont., the west entrance to 

 a public playground covering about 

 For 40 niilbs north from Ogden the road lies 

 along the boundary between the Wasatch Mountains and the region 



Amei 



Lake BonnevUle, 



to 



m 



time 



ui 



mount 



northward across a flat stretch of country which was the floor of a bay 

 of the former lake. 

 railroad follows tin 

 of the bay. 



■o 



from Ogden the railroad 

 a time Lake Bonneville c 



mountain 



In this 



valley the 



lava flow. 



through 



comes out at Pocatello, 134 miles from Ogden, on the great 



Snake River plain. 



miles the way leads 



across another lava flow, once a sagebrush waste, now an agricultural 



paradise. 



& 



finally 



,ms 



out in the vicinity of Yellowstone Park. 



trains 



fields of sugar beets, hay, corn 



^ Mileposts from Ogdeu to McCaminoii 

 and frum PocateUo to Idalio Falk give the 

 distance north of Ogden ; from McCanimon 



to Pocatello, the distance west of Gran- 

 ger, Wyo. ; and from Idaho Falls to Yellow- 

 stone, the distance north of Idaho Falls. 



