Grand Falls of the Yellowstone and Old Faithful Geyser.
THE
Yellowstone National Park
HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE
Illustrated with Maps, Views and Portraits
BY
Hiram Martin Chittenden
Captain, Corps of Engineers, United States Army
CINCINNATI
THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY
1895
Copyright, 1895,
By Hiram Martin Chittenden.
TO THE MEMORIES OF
AND
PIONEERS IN THE WONDERLAND
OF THE
Twenty-five years ago, this date, a company of gentlemenwere encamped at the Forks of the MadisonRiver in what is now the Yellowstone National Park.They had just finished the first complete tour of explorationever made of that region. Fully realizing the importanceof all they had seen, they asked what oughtto be done to preserve so unique an assemblage ofwonders to the uses for which Nature had evidentlydesigned them. It required no argument to showthat government protection alone was equal to thetask, and it was agreed that a movement to securesuch protection should be inaugurated at once. Sorapidly did events develop along the line of this idea,that within the next eighteen months the “Act ofDedication” had become a law, and the YellowstoneNational Park took its place in our country’s history.
The wide-spread interest which the discovery of thisregion created among civilized peoples has in no degreediminished with the lapse of time. In this countryparticularly the Park to-day stands on a firmerbasis than ever before. The events of the past two[vi]years, in matters of legislation and administration,have increased many fold the assurances of its continuedpreservation