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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bad lands, the. (search)
e lakes drained off, after the subsidence of the plains farther east, resulting in the formation of the Missouri Valley, the original lake beds were worn into canyons that wind in every conceivable direction. Here and there abrupt, almost perpendicular portions of the ancient beds remain in all imaginable forms, some resembling the ruins of abandoned cities. Towers, spires, cathedrals, obelisks, pyramids, and monuments of various shapes appear on every side, as far as the eye can range. Dr. Hayden, the earliest explorer of this region, said: Not unfrequently the rising or setting sun will light up these grand old ruins with a wild, strange beauty, reminding one of a city illuminated in the night, as seen from some high point. The harder layers project from the sides of the canyons with such regularity that they appear like seats of some vest weird amphitheatre. Through all this country rainfall is very light: the earth absorbs the most of what rain does fall, and water and grass a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fremont, John Charles 1813-1890 (search)
disappointed and disheartened army were turned back, and marched to St. Louis in sullen sadness. Soon afterwards an elegant sword was presented to Fremont, inscribed, To the Pathfinder, by the men of the West. Ascent of Fremont's Peak. In the Journal of his first expedition (1842), Fremont gives a modest yet thrilling account of the ascent of the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains and of the planting of Old glory on the extreme summit. The altitude of this peak is given by Prof. F. V. Hayden as 13,790 feet. The Journal reads as follows: August 10. The air at sunrise is clear and pure, and the morning extremely cold, but beautiful. A lofty snow-peak of the mountain is glittering in the first rays of the sun, which has not yet reached us. The long mountain wall to the east, rising 2,000 feet abruptly from the plain, behind which we see the peaks, is still dark, and cuts clear against the glowing sky. A fog, just risen from the river, lies along the base of the mount
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Schwab commuted to imprisonment for life; Lingg kills himself by exploding a bomb in his mouth......Nov. 10, 1887 Chicago anarchists Spies, Fischer, Engel, and Parsons hanged......Nov. 11, 1887 Johann Most, anarchist, of New York, arrested for incendiary language......Nov. 17, 1887 Fiftieth Congress, first session, opens......Dec. 5, 1887 President Cleveland's third annual message......Dec. 6, 1887 Anarchist Most sentenced to one year's imprisonment......Dec. 8, 1887 Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, geologist, born 1829, dies at Philadelphia......Dec. 22, 1887 Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning, born 1831, dies at Albany, N. Y.......Dec. 24, 1887 Secretary Lamar resigns......Jan. 7, 1888 Asa Gray, botanist, born 1810, dies at Cambridge, Mass.......Jan. 30, 1888 David R. Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby, Confederate X Roads, born 1833, dies at Toledo, O.......Feb. 15, 1888 W. W. Corcoran, philanthropist, born 1798, dies at Washington, D. C.......Feb. 24, 1888 A. B