The Discovery of Yellowstone Park

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Nathaniel Pitt Langford. The Discovery of Yellowstone Park

The Discovery of Yellowstone Park

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INTRODUCTION

JOURNAL

APPENDIX

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Nathaniel Pitt Langford

Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870

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About this time Gen. Henry D. Washburn, the surveyor general of Montana, joined with Mr. Hauser in a telegram to General Hancock, at St. Paul, requesting him to provide the promised escort of a company of cavalry. General Hancock immediately responded, and on August 14th telegraphed an order on the commandant at Fort Ellis, near Bozeman, for such escort as would be deemed necessary to insure the safety of our party.

Just at this critical time I received a letter from Stuart announcing that he had been drawn as a juryman to serve at the term of court then about to open, and that as the federal judge declined to excuse him, he would not be able to join our party. This was a sore and discouraging disappointment both to Hauser and myself, for we felt that in case we had trouble with the Indians Stuart's services to the party would be worth those of half a dozen ordinary men.

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