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Title: Campbell's new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Campbell, Reau
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Publisher: Chicago : H.E. Klamer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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come near the road but may be seenin herds of hundreds any day. Peli-cans by the score are in the marshesand gulls are flying restlessly up anddown the river. Deer are most likely in the timber patches, but the wholevalley is alive with living creatures—fish, flesh and fowl. MUD GEYSER is near 7+9. Surely this is the Devils Own, a boiling, seethingcaldron of thick muddy water that has a strange fascination. If there everwas a typical bit of hell on earth it is here at the Mud Geyser. Twenty yearsago the eruptions were so violent that the thick, pasty mud was thrown morethan a hundred feet from the crater, covering the trees with a slime thatcompletely concealed and dried on their branches. Eruptions now areexceedingly rare. There is a platform where all stages stop. TRADE MARK CREEK, otherwise called, and on the map Trout Creek, isnear 8+8. I could call it Trade Mark Creek because in its graceful curves, onthe left of the road and fifty feet below it, completely describes the trade-
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JOHN GOFF, ROOSEVELT S GUIDE. 118 mark of the Northern Pacific Railway; it could hardly be done more accu-rately by a landscape gardener, and as it is made by the natural curves ofthe creek through the grassy cove, it is all the more wonderful. The farthestmountain to the north is Mount Washburn. Straight ahead you can seea red spot in the meadow, high on a hill; that is the roof of the Canon Hotel,eight miles away. SULPHUR MOUNTAIN is a high hill to the left of the Circuit Road, near5 + 11, with a side road leading to the boiling sulphur springs on its westernslope, of no special interest to any one except the close student of Parkphenomena. The Circuit Road continues its straight course on the east sideof the mountain and near the river. ALUM CREEK, whose waters, according to the jokes and legends, causesuch an extraordinary shrinkage of value in articles immersed, is near 3+13. SPURGINS BEAVER SLIDE is on the west of the road, near 2+ 14. A tabletinforms that near here Captain Spur

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