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Title: Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler), 1866-1928
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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llustrate the wonderful endurance andvitality of the old-time Western trapper. Inthe course of his wanderings his companion waskilled and he himself captured by the BlackfeetIndians, then intensely hostile to the whites. Acouncil was at once held by the savages, threehundred or more in number, to decide how theirunfortunate captive should be disposed of, andthe plan of binding him to a tree to serve as atarget for their arrows seemed about to prevailwhen the chief interfered. He ordered thatColter be stripped of his clothes and given achance to run for his life. Doubtless the oldsavage thought merely to have a little diversion;it is hardly possible he believed that under suchconditions his prisoner could outrun and finallyescape from several hundred fleet-footed war-riors. It chanced, however, that Colter was afamous runner and distanced all his pursuerssave one, upon whom he suddenly turned,killing the savage with his own weapon, whichthe desperate scout wrested from him. Plunging 50
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THE YELLOWSTONE into the river near at hand, Colter hid untilnightfall under a pile of drift-wood and undercover of darkness swam do\\Ti the stream,eluding his pursuers. Then for seven days he\^*andered stark naked under the burning sun,his feet bruised by stones and torn by theprickly pear, when by strange chance he reachedthe trappers fort from which he started out somemonths before. Such a story seems quite in-credible, but it is well authenticated. But while his companions and the peoplegenerally seemed willing enough to acceptColters almost incredible stor)- of his escape,they laughed at his tales of a wonderful country-he had visited in his wanderings—a land ofsteaming pools, springs of boiling water that atintervals shot hundreds of feet in the air, ofseething caldrons of pitch and strange lakes andrivers. All this ^^as treated with derision andclassed with the tales of Gulliver and Munchau-sen. Colters Heir was the title the \\ise onesgave to the region of the trappers stori

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