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Title: Haynes' guide to Yellowstone Park
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Guptill, A. B. (Albert Brewer), 1854-1931 Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
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Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : F.J. Haynes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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arge animals found in this region—buffalo, elk,deer and mountain sheep. Mud Geysers are about five miles from the LakeHotel, and consist of several large craters filled withblue, pasty mud, one and all emitting odors far fromagreeable. The attractive feature of this locality is theMud Volcano, situated a few rods to the west of theroad, at the base of the clifT, whose funnel-shapedcrater is thirty feet in depth, formed by mud ejected 88 Yi:i.I.OWSTONE NATlONAIv PARK. from below through a cave-Hke opening, out of which asickening, lead-colored mass of mud, of the consistencyof soft mortar, is constantly belched, accompanied bydull, muffled sounds, and in manner at once repulsiveand fascinating. During the summer of 1898 visitors witnessed themost violent eruptions of the Mud Volcano ever re-corded. The mud-plastered trees in the vicinity arestill in evidence of these terrific explosions. Hayden Valley extends from Mud Geysers to AlumCreek along the Yellowstone and west from the river
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HAYDEN VALLEY. TOUR O^ THE PARK. 89 to Mary Mountain. It is the largest valley in the res-ervation, and especially adapted as a range for game,being well watered by Trout and Alum Creeks, andprotected on the north and west by a heavily timberedrange. Sulphur Mountain consists of a group of isolatedhills or buttes/ each about 150 feet high, of which asplendid view is obtained from the roadway that skirtsalong their western base. Large blocks of detachedrock are scattered about, in all of which a great per-centage of pure sulphur is noticeable. The fumes aris-ing from the various vents are exceedingly disagree-able. The chief attraction is a large boiling spring atthe base of the mountain on the west side. On theopposite side of the road are numerous mud caldrons andsprings, the contents of which are varied, some being ofthick mud, others of leaden-hued water, all incessantlyagitated and throwing upon their surrounding edges afinely mixed muddy deposit. The road from SulphurMountain to

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