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AMERICA AS IT IS TO-DAY

... Francisco, thence steamer to Los Angeles. From Los Angeles, in the South-West, we zig-zagged across the continent via Yosemite Valley, Salt Lake City, and Yellowstone Park to Duluth, in the North-east, thence through the Great Lakes to Chicago. From there ...

Published: Tuesday 03 May 1910
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1163 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FAMOUS LADY TRAVELLER. MISS GORDON CUMMING'S MEMORIES

... Catholic Bishop of Samoa on a tour his disarm. From Tahiti I sailed to California. where I stayed six months, mostly is the Yosemite Valley at the foot of the stupendous falls. My reminisresew of this visit are given is 'Granite Crags of California.' Leaving ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1912
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1396 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... volume the quiet valleys. wooded and grassy. nestling among the hills: the towering. snow-capped 11101111- lain.: the stately forest glades: the rugged canons the peaceful. rippling lakes: or the rushing waterfalls. The famous Yosemite Valley., of which not ...

Published: Friday 16 October 1914
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1351 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... considerably less expense than he cross his own continent to the western coast, and while the Grand Canyon of Arizona, the Yosemite Valley, and Colorado Springs are household names to him, is probably far more familiar with the Alps and the Austrian Tyrol.—The ...

Published: Wednesday 06 August 1913
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2168 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS,

... California scenery is illustrated, the Yosemite and Death Valley. The! Yosemite needs no description, for the world, p°n and camera, has been made familiar, with its features. Here abundant life ex-j hibited in valley and summit , where trees j and flowers ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1911
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... forests; while further south, between the westernmost lino of mountains and the great San Joaquin valley, there is a network of hills enclosing beautiful valleys, some of them flowery with orchards, some rich with pastures, dotted over, like a European Park ...

Published: Monday 29 August 1910
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 861 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AN AVALANCHE RIDE

... was so sudden and the end came so soon I had but little time think of the danger that attends this sort of travel. One fine Yosemite morning, after a heavy snowfall, being eager see many avalanches as possible, and to get wide views of the forest and summit ...

Published: Thursday 02 May 1912
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

QUEEN OF BELGIANS' DARING ACT

... stepped into the cage of a mountain lion at the Government Ranger Station, near Yasemite Village, in the beautiful valley of the Yosemite, California! So sudden was the Queen's impulse that King Albert and the astonished members of the party accompanying ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1919
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 868 | Page: 2 | Tags: none