Across the Continent. - View of Echo City, and Entrance to Echo Canyon, Looking East.

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• PUBLISHER: Published for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York.

• MEDIUM: Wood engraving with modern handcoloring,

  DATE: 1870.

• EDITION SIZE: Image 8 7/8 x 14 1/4" (226 x 362 mm) plus title and margins.

• DESCRIPTION:

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Echo Canyon is a ravine through the Wasatch Mountains in northeastern Utah. It's walls range from 800 to 1200 feet in height. Initially used by emigrants, most notably the Mormons under Brigham Young, this canyon led to the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Here is one of the last legs of the Union Pacific Rail Road, just nine months after its historic joining with the Central Pacific at Promontory Point.

• CONDITION: Good condition and color.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Town Views - United States , Utah