[Geysers] Anotehr 1872 image

[Tom and Genean]

Hi Scott,

I saw a copy of the first volume of "Picturesque America" 10 or 15 years  
ago and it was about $400  at the time, so I did not buy it. It contained  
engravings and info from Maine to Virginia to California and was nearly  
600 pages long. Only about 24 pages were about Yellowstone. I did borrow  
it long enough to xerox the section on Yellowstone ("Our Great National  
Park") and the engraving that you attached was not in the section of the  
book on Yellowstone. Some portions of the books were reproduced in  
"Yellowstone to Yosemite: Early Adventures in the Mountain West,"  
introduced by Lito Tejada-Flores and  published by Western Eye Press,  
Telluride, 1988. The engraving is not in this book either. I have not seen  
the second original volume, so I do not know if the engraving is in it.

The table of contents in Volume one contains a section on "Weyer's Cave,  
Virginia." The list of engravings on steel does not contain a listing of a  
cave nor any of the engravings in the Yellowstone chapter except "Upper  
Falls of the Yellowstone" by Thomas Moran, which, interestingly, does not  
appear on the page number given in the list. 15 other engravings appear in  
the chapter, but are not listed in the "list of engravings on steel."

Genean Dunn

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:57:43 EDT, <TSBryan at aol.com> wrote:

> Below is another engraving from William Cullen Bryant's "Picturesque
> America..." Rather curious, is it not? It is titled The Geyser", but I  
> believe  that
> it does NOT purport to show a Yellowstone geyser. To me it appears to be
> within a limestone cavern and, indeed, three of the four observers  
> appear to be
> holding lanterns that illuminate "the geyser."
> the questions: Might anybody have a copy of Bryant's book, and could thus
> better identify this image? Might anybody know of a cavern that contains  
> a
> formation (at least sort of) like this?
> Scott Bryan (not in any way related to W. C. Bryant)



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