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Down the Yellowstone

ILLUSTRATIONS

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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 Super- intendent 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

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