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Title: The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917
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Publisher: Cincinnati : The R. Clarke company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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six, and are supplementedby single conveyances for the accommodation of specialparties. The present system is the result of long develop-ment and is as complete as any in the world. The averagespeed of travel is about six miles per hour, and the longestsingle drive between hotels is twenty miles. The drivers are men of experience and skill, and servethe additional role of guide. They bear a relation to thevisitor not imlike that of a boat captain to his passengers,and no small part of the tourists pleasure is dependentupon them. Some of these drivers have gro^wai up Aviththe transportation business of the Park from the begin-ning, and have acquired an enviable celebrity in the loreof this region. The course of the tourist route is such as to include theYellowstone Lake for a distance of about twenty miles.A boat plies from the west shore, where it meets thecoaches from the Upper Basin, to the hotel at the LakeOutlet. This voyage is one of the most delightful featuresof the Park tour.
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Orange Geyser and Pulpit Tekkace. CHAPTEE XL ADMINISTRATION OF THE PARK. The administration of the Park is assigned by law tothe Secretary of the Interior, who delegates his authorityto a local Superintendent. By statute, also, the Secretaryof the Interior is authorized to call upon the Secretary ofWar for such details of troops as may be necessary to pro-tect the Park. Owing to the failure of Congress to pro-vide for a civilian Su))erintendent and police force, since1886, the Secretary of the Interior has found it necessaryto avail himself of this second statute, so that the presentworking of the Park administration is on this wise: An army officer, commanding the troops of the Park, isthe representative of the Secretary of the Interior, and iscalled the Acting Superintendent of the Park, on the as-sumption that the old regime of civilian Superintendentsis only temporarily suspended. The Superintendent ischarged with the enforcement of the rules and regulationsprovided for the govern

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