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

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. [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)