Category: Canyons
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A Tale: Crashing Through Yankee Jim Canyon in a Wooden Boat — c. 1902
“Driving at all of fifteen miles an hour, [the boat] crashed with the shattering force of a battering ram. Indeed, it speaks a lot for her construction that she simply telescoped instead of resolving into cosmic stardust.
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A Tale: Two Pictures and 1300 Words — Walter Trumbull, 1870
‘The waters … plunged downward, breaking into myriads of drops; each drop, like a lens, gathering prismatic tints from the shining sun, and flashing like diamonds of the purest brilliancy.
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A Tale: Rudyard Kipling Goes Fishing With Yankee Jim — 1889
” It seemed to me … that I might hold my own with the old-timer if I judiciously painted up a few lies gathered in the course of my wanderings. Yankee Jim saw every one of my tales and went fifty better.
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A Tale: A Near Tragedy on Uncle Tom’s Trail
“Grace D. slid several feet before she could get hold of a rock that would hold her. Even then she realized that it would soon loosen.”