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Title: The Yellowstone National Park : historical and descriptive : illustrated with maps, views and portraits
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 1858-1917
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Publisher: Cincinnati : R. Clarke Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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thehistory of the Park, one occupying the country to thesouth-west near the Teton Mountains, and the otherthat to the south-east in the valley of Wind River.The Shoshoues were generally friendly to the whites,and for this reason they figure less prominently in thebooks of early adventure than do the Crows andBlackfeet whose acts of sanguinary violence werea staple article for the Indian romancer. It was an humble branch of the Shoshonean familywhich alone is known to have permanently occupiedwhat is now the Yellowstone Park. They were calledTukuarika, or, more commonly, Sheepeaters. Theywere found in the Park country at the time of itsdiscovery and had doubtless long been there. Thesehermits of the mountains, whom the French trapperscalled les dignes de pitie have engaged the sympathyor contempt of explorers since our earliest knowledgeof them. Utterly unlit for warlike contention, theyseem to have sought immunity from their dangerousneighbors by dwelling among the inaccessible fast-
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INDIAN OCCUPANCY OP THE UPPER YELLOWSTONE. 11 nesses of the mountains. They were destitute ofeven savage comforts. Their food, as their name imdieates, was principally the flesh of the mountainsheep. Their clothing was composed of skins. Theyhad no horses and were armed only with hows andarrows. They captured game hy driving it intobrush inclosures. Their rigorous existence left itsmark on their physical nature. They were feeble inmind, diminutive in stature, and are always describedas a timid, harmless race. They may have beenlonger resident in this region than is commonly sup-posed, for there wTas a tradition among them, appar-ently connected with some remote period of geologicaldisturbance, that most of their race were once de-stroyed by a terrible convulsion of nature. Such were the Indian tribes who formerly dweltwithin or near the country now embraced in the Yel-lowstone National Park. That the Sheepeaters ac-tually occupied this country, and that wanderingbands from other tribe

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