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Title: Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1849-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t a thousandmiles from St. Paul and Duluth, to the east, andPortland to the west; fifteen hundred miles fromChicago, and about the same distance from SanFrancisco. It is open from June fifteenth to Sep-tember fifteenth. Firearms may be carried through the Park, to beused only as a means of defense against wildanimals. Permission to carry them is granted, onapplication to the United States guards. A fewbuffalos are to be found here, thousands of elk anddeer, many bears, black, brown and grizzly, someantelopes, a few coyotes and small game. ThePark is under the control of the government. Itsfort which is called Fort Yellowstone, is at Mam-moth Hot Springs. Soldiers patrol the grounddaily, and during the summer season, an encamp-ment is maintained at the Lower Geyser Basin.Any violation of the superintendents rules is se-verely punished. An abundance of flowers beautifies these pleas-ure-grounds, and he who seeks the more secludedhaunts of these lovely children of the fields and 7 V. I !
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^ fe The Yellowstone Park 295 groves is well rewarded for his pains, for he will beled into the choice spots of nature, her sweet mys-terious hiding-places, reserved only for her truestlovers, and most devoted worshippers. Here thenthe columbine will greet you, and the aster; lu-pines and evening primroses, the painted cup andthe bitter root; the buttercup and the forget-me-not; but why enumerate them ? They are all there,and only he who loves them will care to knowabout them, and he will find them out himself. The fishing is exceptionally good, and one maypursue this form of amusement to his hearts con-tent, catching by fly and line almost every varietyof brook and mountain trout and whitefish. Butthe pleasures of the Yellowstone can hardly be setdown in black and white; they are so many and sovarious. He who comes hither brings in his ownbreast all the hidden seeds, from which spring thedelighted appreciation of these wonderful works ofthe Creator. There has been some doubt as to th

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