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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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ture varying from not warmerthan ten degrees below zero to fifty-two degrees belowduring the entire twenty-nine days consumed by this•expedition. GAME OF THE PARK IN WINTER. Early in March, 1894, a party was organized at Ft.Yellowstone for the purpose of visiting the winterranges of the game, to ascertain, as near as possible,the exact number of buffalo that still exists, and securephotographs of the same. The party consisted of Cap-tain Scott, Lieut. Forsyth, Scout Burgess, Mr. Burns,Photographer Haynes and three non-commissionedofficers. Mounted on the Norwegian snowshoe, withpacks of sleeping bags, provisions and camera, theyproceeded directly to Hayden Valley via Norris and theGrand Canyon. As most of the buffalo congregatethere during the winter months, they found eighty-oneT)uffalo in the valley, seventy-three comprising themain herd, and numerous small groups of elk aggre-gating fully 300. After a stay of several days in Hay-den Valley the party went to Yellowstone Lake. Cap-
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Il6 YE:I.IvOWSTONE NATIONAI, PARK. tain Anderson, superintendent of the Park, had in-structed Scout Burgess not to overlook the countryeast of the lake, as a small herd of buffalo usually win-ter there. The first day out from the lake only elk wereseen by the scout and his companion, there being nosign of buffalo. They went into camp about twelvemiles up Pelican Creek. The second day they discovered, in a secluded spot,the cache of a poacher, very much to their surprise,as it was supposed that no one was in the Park killinggame. The cache consisted of a canvas tepee, sleepingbag, provisions and toboggan, and six buffalo headssuspended in a tree near by. A trace of fire in thetepee led the scout to believe that the poacher was inthe vicinity, and the next move was to capture him. Ithad been snowing constantly all the morning, and allsnowshoe tracks leading from the camp were entirelyobliterated. Some five miles from the camp they heardfive or six rifle shots fired in rapid succession.

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