The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive

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Hiram Martin Chittenden. The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive

The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive

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Hiram Martin Chittenden

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The direction in which Colter traveled is a matter of no essential importance, and that here adopted is based solely upon the consideration that the doubling of the trail upon itself between Clark’s Fork and the Stinkingwater River, and the erratic course of the route around Yellowstone Lake, can not be well accounted for on the contrary hypothesis. [M]

[M] In adopting, as Colter’s point of crossing the Yellowstone, the ford at Tower Creek, the author has followed the Hon. N. P. Langford, in his reprint of Folsom’s “Valley of the Upper Yellowstone.” (See Appendix E.) All other writers who have touched upon the subject have assumed the ford to be that near the Mud Geyser.

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