Down the Yellowstone

PART II

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I Present Day Yellowstone Park 97

II Livingston Twenty Years After 120

III Livingston to Big Timber 138

IV Big Timber to Billings 170

V Billings to Glendive 200

VI Glendive to the Missouri 239

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Yellowstone _Frontispiece_

Elk in gathering storm, Jackson's Hole 14

Elk stalled in snow 18

As we pulled up close behind him 18

The Falls in winter from Point Lookout 30

The Giant is the biggest geyser in North America 38

"Yankee Jim's" cabin 56

"Yankee Jim" with a trout from his canyon 68

Just above the first drop in "Yankee Jim's" Canyon 68

Foot of "Yankee Jim's" Canyon 72

"Calamity Jane" in 1885 80

I found "Calamity" smoking a cigar and cooking breakfast 80

Golden Gate Canyon and Viaduct 104

Emigrant Peak, Yellowstone River, near Livingston, Mont. 108

Tower Fall and Towers 110

Yellowstone Park Headquarters 116

Director Mather, Secretary of the Interior Fall, and Superintendent Albright camping 116

Superintendent Albright and Mule Deer 116

Gate of the Mountains, Yellowstone River 122

Where Custer fell 126

The blacksmith shop where my boat was set up 142

We launched the boat below the Livingston bridge 142

A difficult riffle below Springdale 142

Pete Holt and Joe Evans 150

Hauled out at the foot of a rough rapid 150

A sharp pitch on the upper Yellowstone 150

Joe Evans who piloted me the first half day 156

Pete Holt and Joe Evans with their inflated life preservers 156

"Chickens, children and hogs" 156

Round-up outfit at dinner 172

A savage riffle near the site of Captain Clark's boat camp 176

Sunrise on a quiet reach of the lower Yellowstone 176

The Yellowstone below the outlet of the Lake 180

Rough water and a bad bend 180

Herd, Powder River Valley 202

Sheep by the water, Big Powder River 202

The County bridge over the Yellowstone 206

Pompey's Pillar 212

The Yellowstone from the top of Pompey's Pillar 212

Custer's Pillar, Bad Lands 216

The grating which protects the initials carved by Captain Clark on the side of Pompey's Pillar 216

Stockyards, Miles City 224

"Freightin'" 224

One of the famous school bands of Glendive 240

Buffalo stampede 242

The dam across the Yellowstone at Intake 246

Portaging my boat round the Intake Dam 246

Completing the portage 246

The "Old-N" crossing the Powder River 254

The Yellowstone just above Livingston 270

The Yellowstone just after receiving the Big Horn 270

The broad stream of the Yellowstone below Glendive 280

The last bridge above the Missouri 280

Where the Yellowstone takes possession of the Missouri 280