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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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iporigit, Detroit Photographic Co. LONE STAR GEYSER 66 years ago, from a supposed resemblance to the breasts of a human, and all theexplorers and mountain climbers have let the name alone; the high peak wasnamed for D-. Hayden by the Geological Survey, but he very properly declinedthe honor. Riddle Lake was so named because the hunters and trappers found it hardto guess in which direction its waters escaped, to the Pacific or Atlantic slope. Delusion Lake was, until later years, supposed to be an arm of Lake Yellow-stone. Surprise Creek, because the course of the creek surprised the huntersand trappers when it was found to be in wholly a different direction fromwhat they supposed. Solution Creek is the solving of Riddle Lake. BooneCreek was named for Daniel Boone No. 2, otherwise known as Bob Withrow,an Irish pioneer. Fire Hole River derives its name from the innumerable hot springs that
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(copyright, Detroit Photographic Co. THE SPONGE. bubble up from beneath its cold waters and send out little jets of steam; nomatter if the old trappers did call it Burnt Hole from the forest fires in thatvalley in the late twenties of the last century. The Fire Hole River it is,because of the fire holes in its bed and for nothing else; it is the most distinc-tively appropriate name in the Park, except it may be Fire Hole Lake. Fire Hole Lake is a lake of fire holes emitting blue blazes in globules ofsulphuric looking fire, the most astonishing phenomena in the world. Thiswonder of wonders is in the Lower Basin district. Tower Falls is in the scenic district to the north of Mount Washburn, socalled from the towering rocks of the canon about the falls. Sylvan Lake gets its name from the lovely location and the beauties ofits waters. 57 Violet Creek runs through the violet beds of Hayden Valley. Maiden HairBrook is a name that has never been in print till it appeared on this page, andnot

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