--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 19 number: 6 published: 1916-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Poetic Eulogy to Green River and the Rocky Mountains,\" *Improvement Era* 19, no. 6 (April 1916): 530." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1906unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1906unse start_page: 530 end_page: 530 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1906unse publication_year: 1916 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Poetic Eulogy to Green River and the Rocky Mountains Poetic Eulogy to Green River and the RockyMountains The editors of the Era are indebted to Mr. S. W. Ward, ofRock Spring's, Wyo., for this photograph which he solicited fromits author, Mr. W. J. Stroud ("Rocky Mountain Bill," the Wyo-ming scenic photographer). Mr. Stroud has traveled over andexplored more of Wyoming territory than any other man living-.I fe is said to have climbed its every peak of any importance, andrecently hoisted the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Fremontpeak, elevation 13,790 feet. Mr. Stroud is in possession of hun-dreds of copyright pictures, including "movies" of Wyomingscenery, and wild game. Describing his photo on the oppositepage, he writes, in the following poem in prose, his impression ofthe scene as the grand old stream leaves the mountain "land ofglistening snow" to pursue its windings, like a silver thread, overthe great deserts of sand: "This scenic grandeur was taken near Mr. John Hay's ranch,with Green river in the foreground. The snowy mountains arefading away; the roar of the river's gushing waters is hushed asit leaves the land of glistening snow; its cooling, quiet resorts areexchanged for the scorching sun and sand of the great desert; itsdeep valleys of perennial flowers, snow-capped peaks, and ripplingfountains are abandoned for a journey of a hundred miles overshifting sands. In imagination, a song of sweeter music thanthat of the 'Lost Chord' steals over the soul in the hushed silenceof eventide. The bugle note of an old bull elk, far away on someelevated spot, challenges the world to battle, and is heard no morefor a hundred miles—then we enter the beautiful canyon Ladore." W. J. Stroud. ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING.