The old-time emigrant trail passes through these canyonsalongside the railway and the river.
Enormous crags and bold peaks of bare rocks, mostly compose the mountains, while the streams flow at the bases of towering precipices in deep chasms and canyonsfilled with broken rocks.
The combined magnificence of these canyons and mountains makes the environment of the Colorado mining region one of the most attractive scenic districts in America.
Within the upper canyons are also attractions, that of the Merced River, the central gorge displaying the Vernal and Nevada waterfalls.
Through this region the Snake River has carved out its extraordinary canyon in places four thousand feet deep, and in some respects rivalling the canyons of the Colorado.
The canyonsof distant mountain showed deep and full of lilac haze.
The falls andcanyons of the Yellowstone are considered among the most wonderful in the world.
But stop and think Bob; what d'ye expect takes these cattle-rustlers over this way right now, headed straight for the canyons of Thunder Mountain?
Twice I've been 'bliged to explore the canyons thar, arter lost cattle; but I never did hanker 'bout the job.
In the afternoon these side canyons became more frequent, and as they approached one Sam saw that a stream of clear water was pouring out from between its walls.
But if I'd had de buildin' ob dese yer canyons I wouldn't hab wasted sich a mighty sight ob stone in puttin' in de banks.
They drifted on till the middle of the afternoon, passing many side canyons which it was impossible to enter, when they suddenly found their raft swept by a whirling current, that boiled about them like the waves of a storm-tossed sea.
We are well along in August, you must remember, and the snow doesn't melt as easily up in the mountain canyons now as it did earlier in the season.
Besides, there were tribes of fierce Indians living in the deep canyons who would lie in wait to overwhelm the pilgrims in hopes of obtaining their horses and those wonderful sticks that spat out fire.
Gorges and canyons had to be passed, where the howling waters raced in an apparent agony, and flute-like came the sound of the snow-cold water against the pebbly bottoms.
Simon Fraser, who had followed Mackenzie through the Peace Pass, in 1808 explored the river that bears his name from the mountains to the sea, descending its terrific canyons in a frail canoe.
How Arizona Pete had wandered so far from the land of alkali plains and canyons no one seemed to know, but it was apparent that he had accumulated in his travels a fund of hair-raising stories of which Pete was the hero.
One day after two very deep canyons we emerged from the forest jungle into an up and down country of high jungle bush-brush.
Scarcely less fascination haunted a stroll down the river canyons or along the tops of the bluffs above them.
The road skirts the base of the hills, winding in and out of shallow canyons and about the edges of rounded hills.
Its course was mainly down and up hundreds of the canyons radiating from the main peak, and over the ridges between them.
The middle slopes are black with a spruce forest and cut with a number of canyons in which clear streams roar.
The desert and its steep-walled canyons seemed to be far behind us.
The enormous amount of erosion that has taken place in the adjacent canyons and the great numbers of strata, composed of lava flows, laid bare by the mighty streams of the glacial period all point to this conclusion.
This was another of the mile-deep canyons so characteristic of this region.
This makes it seem all the more extraordinary that Salapunco could ever have been built as a defense against Ollantaytambo, unless it was built by folk who once occupied Cuzco and who later found a retreat in the canyons below here.
Others escaped and accompanied Manco into the inaccessible canyons of Uilcapampa.
Darkness slowly emerged from the canyonsand enfolded forest and hill-slope in her silent embrace.
And with that my friend the patrolman, turning on his heel, pursued his way through the quiet canyons of the streets where a thousand happy sleepers knew nothing of his coming and saw nothing of his going.
At a distance canyons and vast gulches are filled so softly and so solidly that they can scarcely be detected, the trees on the crests of the nearer hills blending into those above, and concealing the deep spaces that sink between.
The mountains are covered deeply with snow, which drifts to a tremendous depth in canyons and cuts.
I had wandered a long way and now cut across the country to the camp through rocky canyons and dense cedar growth.
They left behind no trace of history except the Paint Rocks among the canyons of Wyoming, near Basin City, and in Crandle Creek Basin, Montana, on which we might read of a thousand historical deeds if we could but find the key.
Dark stretches of timber fringe the canyons where the bald eagle, silent as the grave, seeks its prey.
After a careful survey, he struggled on up the trail, whose serpentine twists wound in and out through trees and canyons and dazzling snow until he was almost blinded.
The faithful ghosts of the dogs of fallen hunters were following their departed masters in the amethystine mists of the canyons about them.
The upland was split with thousands of canyons that writhed over the white expanse like snakes in tortuous convulsions.
But the third day these pests disappeared in time to allow the voyagers to pay due attention to a troubled piece of water, as the stream shot down the northern slope of the Arctic Rockies through gorges and canyons of no little height.
It seemed as though the larger river had been led into bad habits by the new arrival, for it became a wild scramble of water, rushing through the canyons and gorges of the Alaskan Range with terrifying speed.
They took her to the Cheyenne Canyonsand the top of Pike's Peak; they carried her over the Marshall Pass and to many smaller places less known to fame, but no less charming in their way.
In similar wise, the pioneering of northern Arizona had its initiation in a hope of the Mormon Church for conversion of the Indians of the canyons and plains.
These Titanic terraces and palisaded plateaus, more particularly the flaming canyons and jeweled amphitheatres cut from their color-saturated rock layers, form scenic spectacles without peer or rival on the globe.
On all sides are unexplored plateaus and canyons where untouched cliff dwellings stand.
Across the great plateau the Colorado River has cut a series of canyons about 220 miles long, a mile in depth and twelve miles in width.
Zion National Park includes othercanyons of extraordinary interest, and the entire terrace-top of the broad Kolob Plateau is a domain of incredibly fantastic formations.
The roar of his mighty breath could be heard wrenching giant limbs from the forest trees, whistling down the canyons and dealing death and destruction for leagues and leagues along the coast.
The canyonshere are steep and, in some localities, very wooded in contrast to the more open canyons farther down the coast.
All summer, students in small or larger parties tramped over the hills and through the many interesting canyons to the lakes, to the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, or to Balboa and the mud flats.
This was collected in Whittier, Claremont, Lytle Creek and San Antonio canyons, and the smallercanyons near Claremont.
Bears are found only in the mountains and canyons of the park.
Moraines, outwash plains, and lakes are easily recognizable features that originated during the latest glacial stages, and most of the peaks and canyons were greatly modified.
Intervening canyonshave been left in their splendid wildness.
Tracing these ice-gouged canyons headward one will discover many rock-rimmed lakelets, some hung on precipitous mountain sides where one might be pardoned for asserting that no lake could possibly exist.
But he could hope that, if Kitchell had stocked some hidden canyons with stolen horses, the outlaw leader had left no guards on duty thereabouts.
Horses to be found back in the rough country, hidden away in the maze of pocket canyons where there was water and enough browning grass to keep them from straying.
None of them has cut a deep, broad bed for itself like the great radiating canyons which dissect the Rainier National Park and protect its glaciers down to a level averaging four thousand feet.
But in the net-work of canyons they had selected the wrong one, and were lost.
Strata are uptilted and riven, to be cross-sectioned again by the new rivers as they cut new canyons in draining the new lakes.
Forests were buried, old canyons were filled, and the whole southwest side of the mountain was covered with the fan-shaped outwash from the breach.
The whole neighborhood of the mountain is a vastly rugged district of glacial canyons and eroded water channels, trenched deep in the soft volcanic ashes and the underlying ancient rock of the range.
View looking southeast across the heavily forested ranges of the Cascades to the deep canyons below Ladd and Sandy glaciers.
To the north the hills that rim the Basin caught the slanting rays of the setting sun and glowed rose-color, and pink, and salmon, with deep purple shadows where canyons opened, all rising out of drifts of silvery light.
Nearer ahead were the hills, brown and tawny, with blue shadows in the canyonsshading to rose and lilac and purple as they stretched their long lengths away toward the lofty, snow-capped sentinels of the Pass.
Slowly, through the centuries of that age of all beginnings, the river, cutting canyons and valleys in the north and carrying southward its load of silt, built from the east across the gulf to Lone Mountain a mighty delta dam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canyons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
