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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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ldswhere there are herds of antelope. On the left is the town of Gardiner, a sort 95 of one-sided town, as all its houses are on the same side of its one street; thestreet is on the Park line and buildings are not permitted inside the line, buttheres hardly enough of Gardiner to go on both sides of a street anyway. Electric Peak and Sepulcher Mountain are on the right, lifting their heightshigh gainst the western sky. In a few minutes the stages have crossed thelittle fields, passed along their irrigating sluices and entered the GardinerCanon. The road runs along the Gardiner River, close to its rushing waters, andcrossing it four times within a mile. You are just getting glimpses of thescenic beauties you have heard of; on the east side of the river the cliffs arehundreds of feet high, in crags and pinnacles; on one of the highest is aneagles nest that has been occupied every year since the Park was known.It is said that the eagle is the only bird that uses an old nest, but it is not
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GOING UP MOUNT WASHBURN. sure that the same pair use the same nest every year; they may move, May1st, same as—well, the eagles are always there with their little ones. There are few level places and the stages move slowly; the horses walkalong with a steady climb all the time. After passing the 3-mile post lookto the left; down near the Gardiner and emptying into it is the BOILINGRIVER; you can locate it from the rising steam. This Boiling River is fedby underground streams of hot water from the Mammoth Hot Springs onthe Terraces. The flat top mountain on the left is Mount Everts. For the lastmile to Mammoth the road rises nearly six hundred feet, along the hillside,and in the open till nearly to the top where it enters a little patch of timber, thenas a sharp turn is made to the north there is a glimpse of the great Terraces onthe left. On the right is Fort Yellowstone, officers quarters, the barracks,and the barns, on the left again the Terraces, the village and just aheadMammoth

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