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Title: Portrait
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Ansco Company
Subjects: Photography
Publisher: (Binghamton, N.Y. : Ansco Co.)
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beautifully colored masses of silicious ma-terial in constant agitation. The majority of basins andfissures, however, are filled to their brims with theclearest water imaginable, so transparent that everydetail in their craters is seen. At the head of the Grand Canon of the Yellowstone,which is conceded to be the most beautifully coloredcanon in the world, is the Great Falls, three hundredsixty feet in height; above it is another no less grandwhere the foaming waters leap over a one-hundredtwelve foot precipice, strike a shelving rock formationat the base and are hurled out in rocket-like columns. As no hunting is allowed in the park many wildanimals are seen there in their native haunts; elk, deer,antelope, buffalo, mountain sheep, various species ofbirds, and small animals in great variety. Perhaps thebest known of these are the bears which are seen aroundthe hotels at every stop in the park. Fishing for troutin the lakes and streams is one of the chief sports en- *P o v t v a i ij
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T o V t v a i joyed by the visitor; there are few places, if any, bettersuited to the habits of the trout than in the fastness ofthose mountains. The Yellowstone Park is unique in that the travelersees Nature in its primitive and most wonderful phaseswhile riding in the luxurious coaches patterned after theold overland stage; the roadways which lead to allpoints of interest are built and maintained in first classcondition by the government engineers, who haveaccomplished many difficult feats of engineering in theirconstruction. Mr. Haynes has a portrait studio and publishing housein St. Paul and two studios in Yellowstone Park. Theaccompanying photograph of his studio at MammothHot Springs shows his remarkable fence built of twohundred fifty pairs of elk horns gathered in the vicinity.It is remarkable that horns of such great size can begrown to maturity in a few months to be lost and re-grown each year. The elk sheds his horns aboutMarch first of each year, and by the middle of Julyt

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