The Truckee River canyon walls tower as fortress-like pine-crowned sierras

Evidence

On either side of the Truckee great sierras rose like walls, castellated, embattled, rifted, skirted and crowned with pines of enormous size, the walls now and then breaking apart to show some snow-slashed peak rising into a heaven of intense, unclouded, sunny blue. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 29

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Giant sierra pines drove the region’s lumber economy — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 30

Related

• Giant sierra pines drove the region’s lumber economy (similarity 0.92)

Broader Connections

• Giant sierra pines drove the region’s lumber economy #expands (0.72) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 30