Article Title |
When Hot Springs Were First Discovered |
Type |
article |
Date |
1892-03-01 |
Paper |
Provo Daily Enquirer |
Language |
eng |
City |
Provo |
County |
Utah |
Page |
3 |
Creator |
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 |
Contributors |
Popular science monthly (New York, N.Y. : 1872) |
OCR Text |
Show 1 when hot ware first america hail been discovered and the colonies we w e feeling their way toward the pacific ocean in the vanguard was the famous expedition of lewis and clarke which went overland to the mouth of the river columbia john colter was a hunter in this expedition esp edition eind by some chance he went across the mountains on the old trail of nez perces indiana which ledda across the divide from tle missouri waters to those of the when be came back from the nez perces trail he told most wonderful tales of what he had seen at the head of the missouri there were cataracts of scalding water which shot straight up into the air there were blue ponds hot enough to boil fish there were springs that came up snorting and steaming and would turn trees into stone the woods were full of holey from which issued streams of sulphur there were canyons of untold depth with walls of ashes full of holes which let out steam lika a locomotive and there were springs which looked peaceful enough but which at times would burst like a bomb ever one laughed at colter and his bams yams and this place was familiarly known as coaters Col hell but for once john colter told the truth and the arth could not easily be exaggerated but no one believed him when others who afterward followed him over the incz perces trail told the same stories pi ople said they had been up to col tars hell and had learned to lie dand starr jordan in popular science monthly |
Reference URL |
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pg2vw9/1444232 |