The Yellowstone National Park - historical and descriptive - illustrated with maps, views and portraits (1895) (14764301662)

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Title: The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits

Year: 1895 (1890s)

Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917

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Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke Co.

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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efrom the tourist route, may be found on the FireholeRiver about a mile above its mouth. Just as theroad (the old Norris Road) commences to descendfrom the high plateau between the Gibbon and theFirehole, a glimpse is had of the Teton Mountains.They are among the most striking in the entireRocky Mountain Region. For half a century afterthe overland journey of the Astorians, they were thechief landmarks in that trackless wilderness, andlong bore the name of Pilot Knobs. They are dis-tinctly visible from every important peak in the Park,although they are themselves outside its limits. Asseen from the point, at which we have arrived,they are fifty miles away. They rise precipitouslyfrom the west shore of Jackson Lake (also outside ofthe Park) and with it form a scene of grandeur whichought to be included in the reservation. In 1872,Langford and Stevenson ascended the Grand Teton,being the first white men ever to reach the summit.* * Some doubt has been expressed in recent years as to the

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SrfQ -»vstoire. Vew Spouter In the Yellowstor rr. PAUL, Minn., June . 27.—A privatenpatch from the manager of the Foun-■ n hotel, Yellowstone park, says for 30l nutes yesterday morning, without inter-: ssion, there was an eruption from a cra-I- about fifty feet north of Fountain gey-: •, which has always been considered to1 nothing more than a pool. The sizei the opening is about the same as the 15 nous Fountain Geyser. The eruption)iyed from two hundred to two hundredid fifty feet high. Vent of i u*on tZtu^ tQi !J°nS ot I rant hoid*he* ft ?arrains iPer<*ntl °°u^5ac*e<2 h** this*0*1*8** for th be%ve A TOUR OF THE PARK. 223 They were astonished to find, on a point but littlelower than the main summit, a rude shelter of graniteslabs evidently put in place by human hands agesago. Nez Perce Creek (18 miles) is the largest branch ofthe Firehole, and is of historic interest from its con-nection with the Indian campaign of 1877. It formsthe north boundary of the Lower Geyser

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