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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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ONTINENTAL DIVIDE. This great range of mountains, extending from Mex-ico to Canada through the western portion of theUnited States, is the water-shed of the continent and asalient feature of Yellowstone Park—entering near thesoutheast corner and extending northwest between theheadwaters of the Yellowstone River on its easternslope, and Snake River on the western, separating Yel-lowstone Lake from Shoshone Lake by less than adozen miles. On the summit of the range, a few milessouth of Yellowstone Lake, is Two-Ocean Pond, a smalllake with two outlets, one into the Atlantic throughthe Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers, the other into TOUR OF THE PARK. II the Pacific through Snake River, a branch of the Co-lumbia. The divide passes v^ithin a few miles of theupper geyser basin and makes its exit from the Parkabout midway of the western boundary; the generaldirection after leaving the Park is westerly for aboutfifty miles and forming the dividing line between thestates of Idaho and Montana.
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EMIGRANT PEAK, MONTANA. 12 ye:i.i.owstone: nationai, park. LIVINGSTON TO MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS. Livingston, Montana, is on the main line of theNorthern Pacific Railway, midway between Lake Su-perior and the Pacific Coast. From this point a branchof the road extends fifty-four miles south to Gardiner,Montana, at the northern boundary of the Park, follow-ing the valley of the Yellowstone the entire distance.Livingston is located at the base of the Snowy and Beltranges—spurs of the Rocky Mountains. Three milesfrom the town the Park branch passes through the firstcanyon of the Yellowstone or Gate of the Mountains,which forms a natural entrance into the Upper Yellow-stone Valley. This canyon is nearly a mile long andjust wide enough to comfortably admit the road andriver, the mountain walls rising some 2,000 feet per-pendicularly on either side. Passing through the firstcanyon. Paradise Valley is immediately entered; it ex-tends from the mouth of the canyon some thirty milesup the river an

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