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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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se. In July and August of this year, the Hon. JohnW. Hoyt, Governor of Wyoming, with a military es-cort under command of Major Julius W. Mason, U. S.A., made an extended reconnaissance to discover a prac-ticable wagon route to the Yellowstone Park from thesouth-east. He entered the Park by way of the Up-per Yellowstone, passed through it byway of Yellow-stone and Shoshone Lakes, the Firehole Geyser Basins,the Grand Canon, the lower end of Yellowstone Lake,and left it along the route by which Captain Joneshad entered in 1873. In the years 1881 and 1882, General Sheridan, withparties of considerable size, twice crossed the Parkand visited its most important points. His expedi-tions wTere of great value to the Park from the forci-ble warning which he gave to the public concerningthe demoralized condition of its civil administration. The most elaborate expedition that ever passedthrough this region took place in August, 1883.* It * The year 1883 seems to have been the banner year for dis-
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