Category: Yellowstone Stories
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A Tale: A Narrow Escape from the Nez Perce — Ben Stone, 1877
“I chanced to run under a tree, with low branches. I took hold of the branches and hoisted myself in, without any expectation of saving my life. I had no more than got into the tree, before an Indian on horseback dashed under it.”
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A Tale: Early Hotels Offered Crude Accommodations — 1883
“Above the square part of the building was a great loft, and this was elegantly subdivided into cells by burlap partitions reaching rather more than half‑way up.”
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A Tale: Hunting a Yellowstone Lion
The men failed to see that, from the edge of an overhanging rock above them, two pale green eyes were watching their every move. Behind the eyes, the sinewy form of a great cat was stealthily adjusting itself for a leap.
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A Tale: Teddy Roosevelt Bags an Elk on Two Ocean Pass — 1891
” I saw the tips of a pair of mighty antlers, and I peered over the crest with my rifle at the ready. Thirty yards off, behind a clump of pinyons, stood a huge bull.”
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A Tale: A Fur Trader Travels to Geyserland — Ferris, 1834
“From the surface of a rocky plain or table, burst forth columns of water of various dimensions, projected high in the air, accompanied by loud explosions, and sulphurous vapors, … The largest of these wonderful fountains, projects a column of boiling water several feet in diameter, to the height of more than one hundred and…
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A Tale: One Good, Square Drink — General W.E. Strong, 1875
“The horses were going rapidly, with a drunken driver fast asleep, and only a foot between the outer wheels and the brink of the precipice two hundred feet high—where, if a horse slipped and went down, or a wheel came off, there was no hope for us.”
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Two Ocean Pass and the Mystery of the Fishless Waters
“it is certain that there is no obstruction even in dry weather to prevent the passage of trout from the Snake River to Yellowstone Lake; it is quite evident that trout do pass over in this way; and it is almost absolutely certain that Yellowstone Lake was stocked with trout from the west”
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A Tale: Part 6: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park — HWS 1880.
The final installment of HWS’s chronicle of her Yellowstone adventure begins at the edge of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Then a photographer takes her picture on Foxey and she visits Yellowstone Lake and the Upper Geyser Basin. Then she starts home. Begin with Part 1 ∞§∞ The lads of our party found great…
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A Tale: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park (Part 4) — HWS 1880.
“We traveled over a road made of obsidian, which is a sort of volcanic glass, of a reddish black color, and glistened beautifully in the sun.”
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A Tale: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park (Part 2) — HWS 1880
After reaching the end of the railroad line, HWS travels with a pack train through scorching days and freezing nights across Idaho to the edge of Yellowstone National Park. Begin with Part 1 ∞§∞ We were met on the little railroad platform at Camas by our guides, three fine looking mountaineers, who informed us that…