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Title: Campbell's new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Campbell, Reau
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Publisher: Chicago : H.E. Klamer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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st forest, dotted here and therewith grassy meadows which were, perhaps a long time ago, also covered withtrees that were since destroyed by the forest fires before there were any care-takers to prevent them. 92 The great trees of these fine forests greatly add to the charm of the drive,especially in Christmas Tree Park, and from Old Faithful to the Lake whereit is up hill and down dale all the way, with only a little green meadow nowand then—a little green meadow just big enough for a cottage lawn. Andtheres a window in the trees of the Great Divide where the stages stop longenough for you to look out on one of the grandest pictures in the world—theforeground of the grand old forests seen from far above their tops, ShoshoneLake shimmering in the middle distance, and far beyond the lake the Tetons,blue in the distance so that it is hard to tell sometimes where the blue of themountain ends and the sky begins. More than two-thirds of the Park is covered by trees in size ranging from
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SPARRING FOR TIME. the mast of a yawl boat to the largest bridge timber. There is little com-mercial value to this timber; it is, in fact, more ornamental than useful, exceptwhere it is used for firewood after it has fallen, telegraph poles, corrals, etc. White pine grows only in the lower elevations, and is about the only oneof the pine variety in the Park. The Douglas Spruce is found in almost allparts and grows to a greater size than any other tree, and is consequentlymore in use for building purposes. The only cedars are the knarled and knotted little half vine and half treesone sees around Mammoth Hot Springs and in the Gardiner Valley, withno other use than to add quaintness to the beauties of the Park forests. 93 The Silver Fir is the most shapely and with the Engelmann Spruce makesup much of the forest beauty. The boughs of these firs commencing a footor two from the ground incline, like a tent roof, from the trunk and providealmost complete protection from rain or snow. There

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