Haynes' guide to Yellowstone Park (1902) (14763516094)

Identifier: haynesguidetoyel1902gupt (find matches)
Title: Haynes' guide to Yellowstone Park
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Guptill, A. B. (Albert Brewer), 1854-1931 Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
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Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : F.J. Haynes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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NENTAL DIVIDE This great range of mountains, extending from Mex-ico to Canada through the western portion of the UnitedStates, is the water-shed of the continent and a salientfeature of Yellowstone Park. Entering near the south-east corner and extending northwest between the head-waters of the Yellowstone River on its eastern slope,and Snake River on the western, separating Yellow-stone Lake from Shoshone Lake by less than a dozenmiles. On the summit of the range, a few miles southof Yellowstone Lake, is Two-Ocean Pond, a small lakewith two outlets, one into the Atlantic, through theYellowstone and Missouri Rivers, the other into the TOUR OF THE PARK. II Pacific through Snake River, a branch of the Columbia.The divide passes within a few miles of the upper geyserbasin and makes its exit from the Park about midwayof the western boundary; the general direction after leav-ing the Park is westerly for about fifty miles and formingthe dividing line between the states of Idaho and Mon-tana.
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EMfGRANT PEAK, MONTANA. 12 YElvIvOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. LIVINGSTON TO MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS Livingston, Montana, is on the main line of theNorthern Pacific Railway, midway between Lake Supe-rior and the Pacific Coast. From this point a branchof the road extends fifty-one miles south to Cinnabar,Montana, near the northern boundary of the Park, fol-lowing the valley of the Yellowstone the entire distance.Livingston is located at the base of the Snowy and Beltranges—spurs of the Rocky Mountains. Three milesfrom the town the Park branch passes through the firstcanyon of the Yellowstone or Gate of the Mountains,which forms a natural entrance into the Upper Yellow-stone Valley. This canyon is nearly a mile long andjust wide enough to comfortably admit the road andriver, the mountain walls rising some 2,000 feet per-pendicularly on either side. Passing through the firstcanyon. Paradise Valley is immediately entered; it ex-tends from the mouth of the canyon some thirty milesup the river and i