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about seven miles west of them, including an angleofabout ( .)0°. 

 Elevation of stand-point, about 10,000 feet, and of the highest 

 Teton, 13,833 feet (Sec the scries no to 414.) 



No. 109. The Three Tetons, from a prominent stand point. looking 

 across the left-hand canon of West Teton River and over 

 the broad snow-covered plateau, extending up to the foot of 

 the Tetons. The views Nos. 415 to 419 were made from under 

 the other side of the small butte that lies directly under the 

 middle peak. 



JSos. 410-414. A complete panoramic view, in live sections, sweeping 

 the whole horizon from a stand-point having an elevation of 

 nearly 11,000 feet The Tetons occupy the first view, and 

 the others sweep around and join it on the left. From their 

 great elevation, and their abrupt, pointed outlines, visible in 

 all directions from great distances, they have long been 

 noted land-marks for travelers. They are described for the 

 first time in Irvine's Astoria, as the Pilot Knobs. Only 

 three peaks are seen from a distance, but there are really a 

 score, grand in themselves, were they not overshadowed and 

 hidden by their more majestic neighbors. To the south and 

 southeast we look over great canons and broad, snow-covered 

 plateau mountain tops, to nameless and numberless peaks in 

 the dim distance. To the north are lon<; - serrated mountain 

 ridges, ragged, bare, and snow-streaked. To the west are 

 two great snow-covered sentinels, and beyond them the great 

 plane of the Snake River. All these views were taken about 

 Angnst 1, when there was the least quantity of snow in 

 the year. 



No. 415. View in the Teton Range, looking west from a point about 

 three miles from the Tetons, and from the edge of the great 

 canon that separates them from the abutting quartzites. 



No. 41(5. View looking north to the sharply serrated peaks lying 

 north of the Great Canon. 



No. 417. View looking south across the great snow-covered plateau, 

 thickly scattered over with ragged and precipitous mountain 

 peaks. 



No. 418. View southeast. A continuation to the left of the preceding 

 view, showing the two lesser Tetons and the head of the 



Great Canon. In the foreground is the edge of the preci- 

 pice, that drops down perpendicularly 2,000 feet to the canon 

 below. 

 No. 410. Mount IIavdkn, or the Great Teton, the highest of the Three 

 Tetons, having an elevation of 1.3,833 feet above the sea. It is 

 nearly (5,000 feet above the bottom of the Great Canon, as 

 shown in the view, and over 7,000 feet above -Jackson's Lake, 

 on the opposite side. 1 iiimediately in front is the Great 

 Canon, sweeping around to the north and east, showing the 

 full depth of over 2,000 feet. On the 29th of duly. 1872, 

 Messrs. Stevenson and Langford succeeded in reaching its 

 summit, after a series of most thrilling adventures and hair- 

 breadth escapes; and as they were, in all probability, the 

 only white men who ever accomplished the ascent, claimed 

 the right to name the mountain. 



No. 420. A VIEW LOOKING DOWN THE SOUTH FORK OF TETON RlVER, 

 three miles above the junction. 



