Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Over the Falls (William Henry Jackson: Mystic Lake, Montana, 1871)



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Mystic Lake, distant view from the trail. The first glimpse as we approach it. Gallatin County, Montana. 1871.

Mystic Lake, distant view from the trail. The first glimpse as we approach it. Gallatin County, Montana, 1871





imagining

the morning's clarity



from the evening's

blurred impingement

from up the creek or down

not easy

over the falls

Mystic Lake

looked

so beautiful



from a distance

that first glimpse

shining

beyond the bright

meanders

beneath black

pine slopes

as we approached

it



but a dim memory

now





View down the creek a short distance below Mystic Lake. The creek falls very rapidly, some 500 feet in less than half a mile. Gallatin County, Montana. 1871.

View down the creek a short distance below Mystic Lake. The creek falls very rapidly, some 500 feet in less than half a mile. Gallatin County, Montana, 1871

View down the creek a short distance below Mystic Lake. The creek falls very rapidly, some 500 feet in less than half a mile. Gallatin County, Montana. 1871.

View down the creek a short distance below Mystic Lake. The creek falls very rapidly, some 500 feet in less than half a mile. [Falls of the creek seen at bottom of the photograph.] Gallatin County, Montana, 1871



Photos by William Henry Jackson from United States Geological Surveys (U. S. Geological Survey Photographic Library)