Wonders of the Yellowstone

On the day that I found myself separated from the company, and for several days previous, our course had been impeded by the dense growth of pine forest, and occasional large tr...

Just over the western margin of the Yellowstone Basin, yet within the limits of our great National Park, is the grand geyser region of Firehole River. Here, in a valley a dozen...

The Yellowstone leaves the Lake with an easy flow in a channel a quarter of a mile wide, and deep enough to swim a horse. A mile to the eastward of the outlet is the mouth of Pe...

Between the Upper and Lower Geyser Basin is a space of two or three miles entirely free from hot springs; yet the abundance of spring deposit over all the valley shows that the...

In Icelandic speech the word _geyser_ means simply _rager_, and is applied indiscriminately to all turbulent fountains of water or mud. The most violent and noisy "rager" on the...

About a mile above the springs, Gardiner's River separates into three branches--the East, Middle, and West Forks, which rise high up in the mountains, among perpetual snows. The...

The Upper or Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone extends from the mouth of Tower Creek to the foot of the Great Fall, a distance of twenty miles. It is impassable throughout its enti...

Half a mile above the Upper Fall the Yellowstone gives no intimation of its approaching career of wildness and grandeur. It rolls peacefully between low verdant banks and over p...

Ten miles above the Devil's Slide, Gardiner's River, a mountain torrent twenty yards wide, cuts through a deep and gloomy gorge and enters the Yellowstone at the lower end of th...

No language," says Dr. Hayden, "can do justice to the wonderful grandeur and beauty of the Grand Cañon." It has no parallel in the world. Through the eye alone can any just idea...

In their exploration of the headwaters of the Missouri in the summer of 1805, the heroic Captains Lewis and Clarke discovered and named the three terminal branches of that river...

"Secluded amid the loftiest peaks of the Rocky Mountains," writes Mr. Langford, "possessing strange peculiarities of form and beauty, this watery solitude is one of the most att...

As soon as Dr. Hayden could make known officially the results of his exploration of the Yellowstone Basin, action was begun to secure the reservation of a portion at least of th...

The Yellowstone tourist leaves the confines of civilization at Fort Ellis. This frontier military post, situated near the head of the beautiful and fertile valley of the East Ga...

At Bottlers' Ranch the wagon road terminates. For the first ten miles beyond, the trail runs along the west bank of the river through the wildest imaginable scenery of rock, riv...

In the northwest corner of the Territory of Wyoming, about half way between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, and in the same latitude as the State of New York, the g...

Around the Yellowstone Lake--Hot Springs of Pelican Creek--Hot Springs of Steam Point--Fire Slashes--Difficult Travelling--Little Invulnerable--Poetry in the Wilderness--Volcani...

Gardiner's River to Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone--Forks of Gardiner's River--Gallatin Mountains--Basaltic Columns--Falls of Gardiner's River--Mountain Prospect--Over the Divid...

Mr. Everts's Thirty-seven Days of Peril--Lost--Loss of Horse--Midnight Dangers--Starvation--Return to Lake--No Food in the Midst of Plenty--Bessie Lake--Thistle Roots--Hunted by...

Over Mount Washburn to Falls of the Yellowstone--Ascent of Mount Washburn--Extensive View--Steam Puffs--Elephant's Back--Grand Cañon--Yellowstone Basin--The Three Tetons--First...

Natural History of Geysers and other Thermal Springs--Iceland Geysers--History of _The Geyser_--The Strokr--Eruption of _the_ Geyser--Growth of _the_ Geyser--Mechanism of Geyser...

Lower Geyser Basin--Down the Firehole--Prismatic Hot Springs--The Cauldron--Old Spring Basins--The Conch Spring--Horn Geyser--Bath Spring--The Cavern--Mud Springs--Thud Geyser--...

Upper Geyser Basin--The Grand Geyser Region--Firehole River--Madison Lake--Mountains about the Lake--Cascades--The Geysers--Old Faithful--The Bee-hive--The Giantess--Castle Geys...

From the Falls to the Lake--River above the Falls--Alum Creek--Boiling Springs--Crater Hill--A Narrow Escape--The Locomotive Jet--Sulphur Springs--Mud Puffs--No Vegetation--Temp...