Editor's Note: The narrative below the dashed line was scanned and OCR transcribed directly from the 1941 Edition of The WPA Wyoming Guide. ------------------------------- At Rock Springs is the junction with US 187 (see Tour 7b). US 30 skirts rocky ledges through a region of scrubby sage and low- growing greasewood. Far ahead, a prominent butte shows through a gap; emigrants used it as a landmark. An occasional small chicken ranch, with weather-beaten buildings, appears along the highway, and a cluster of bright-yellow section houses stands by the railroad. The road runs on between eroded red and white sandstone hills, where receding prehistoric seas left their sediments in great wavelike deposits; then it winds out of a bowl, up through Bitter Creek Valley, and curves down a steep hill. Running along a shelf, it commands a view of the Green River, which in flood times is jammed with ties. Smoke from many trains and from railroad shops hangs over the valley. GR...
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