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Kepler Cascades

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of trachyte lava 200 feet in depth. This was the Firehole River, heading in a lake a few miles to the south. Following down the course of this stream we presently passed two fine roaring cascades, where the water tumbled over rocks to the depth of 20 and 50 feet successively. These pretty little falls, if located on an eastern stream, would be celebrated in history and song; here, amid objects so grand as to strain conception and stagger belief, they were passed without a halt.
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September 18 . -- We broke camp at 9 o'clock, traveling along the slopes of the ridges, skirting the ravines through falling timber, and passing in many places over swampy terraces, for a distance of three miles, when we suddenly came upon a mountain torrent, 40 feet wide, and running through a gorge
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The report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane upon the so-called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870
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in 1870 but not named until 1881. In his 1871 report to the Secretary of War,
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The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and their Discovery
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The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists
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Yellowstone National Park
WY
US
Coordinates
44°26′45″N 110°48′25″W / 44.44573°N 110.80698°W / 44.44573; -110.80698
Type
Firehole River
waterfall
Firehole River
Yellowstone National Park
United States
Old Faithful
Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition
Gustavus C. Doane
Philetus Norris
Wyoming's territorial
John Wesley Hoyt
Kepler Cascades, 1883
Kepler Cascades, 1901
Kepler Cascades, 1962
Kepler Cascades, 1963
Kepler Cascades, 1963
Waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park
ISBN
978-1-56579-351-4
The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists
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