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Title: The passing of the old West
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George), 1887-1934 Bull, Charles Livingston, 1874-1932, ill
Subjects: Game protection
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Already it was knownto the world as the Old West of yesterday.His journey to the plains had weighed himdown. Future generations could never seethe^old days as he had seen them. But nowhis depression lifted. Here, spread for milesall round him, was the one best spot of all thegreat outdoors, remaining the same as Naturehad fashioned it. And it had been decreedthat so it should always stand. This wasto remain intact, one spot where men who hadnever known the old days themselves mightcome to look upon things as they had been.And to him this meant — even more than thepreservation of freak phenomena set down inthis far spot with lavish hand — the retentionof naturalness as it had always been; thegreen of forested slopes unscarred by thelumbermans ax; crystal streams unpollutedby the cities drainage, lakes never to beexploited as resorts for individual gain; theonly sounds of the hills those sounds ofNatures own in her varying moods of calmand storm, — areas of silence and of sound,68
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Here the bighorn of the peaks gazed down. Page 69. THE PASSING OF THE OLD WEST the hush of prairies unruffled by the wind, theboom and throb of waterfalls pouring fromthe lip of overhanging ledges to pound thefloor of the gorge below, all this without theroar of miners blasts that jarred the foun-dation of the hills; animal life as it hadbeen in the long ago. Truly the origina-tors of the reservation had chosen well. Here the bighorn of the peaks gazed downupon the specks that were antelope of theprairies grazing the broad bottoms of theLamar. Future generations, who would re-construct the old times by looking upon theshaggy beasts that had roamed in millionsand furnished food for the westward marchof the pioneers across the plains, could cometo this spot and view the largest herds ofwild buffalo left alive, ranging in the HaydenValley and on the Madison and Pitchstoneplateaus. Those who would gaze still fartherinto the past, returning to the great day ofthe fur trade, might still com

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