2-752-386 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Weber River - Entrance to Echo Cañon', 1874. Valley in Utah, USA. 'A short distance west from Wasatch Station...there lies before the traveller a view of the green valley before the entrance to Echo Canyon. Through it flows the Weber River, bordered with trees, and making a scene that is suddenly deprived of all the weirdness and look of dreary devastation that has marked the country through so many miles of this long journey. The valley is not so broad, so pastoral in aspect, as that which comes after the wild scenery of the first canon is passed; but it is like a woodland valley of home lying here in the wilderness'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]