Shoshone Falls

Shoshone Falls (pron. Shoshonee'), on the Snake (q.v.) River, in southern Idaho, about 950 feet wide, and with a clear leap of 210 feet (that of Niagara is under 170 feet). The river runs in a deep gorge between walls of volcanic rock, 1000 feet high at the foot of the falls, and the head of the falls is in the form of a semicircle. Four miles higher up are the Little Shoshone Falls, two nearly equal cataracts divided by a great rock, and falling 182 feet. See the Century Magazine, April 1890.