Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . und that no Frank was there. I could notget on to Bozeman; the last train for theday had already gone, so we took the train forthe National Park, and I sat down in onecorner of it, and felt more like fainting thanI had ever felt in my life before. Threeweeks had I been in the country, and not aword or sign from the boy I had come so farto see. What was the cause ? If he hadbeen ill some friend would surely have toldme. Was he living ? Had he met with someterrible accident
Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . und that no Frank was there. I could notget on to Bozeman; the last train for theday had already gone, so we took the train forthe National Park, and I sat down in onecorner of it, and felt more like fainting thanI had ever felt in my life before. Threeweeks had I been in the country, and not aword or sign from the boy I had come so farto see. What was the cause ? If he hadbeen ill some friend would surely have toldme. Was he living ? Had he met with someterrible accident on that long sheep-drive hewrote about months ago? Had he marrieda red Indian squaw, and did he not want tosee me ? Did he suppose that his old friendM. and I would be too proud to put up at thelittle log shanty w^hich he had built with his IN THE ROCKIES, 105 own hands ? Had he been m the hug of agrizzly ? These were some of the grim reflectionsthat passed through my disturbed mind asI sat at the end of the car, gloomily watchingthe magnificent scenery through which thetrain was now carrying us down towards LETTER No. XII. The Yellowstone National Park—*The New Won-derland —The Devils Slide—The stagedriver—Story of a corpse—Driving a circus coach—Circus Bill appropriates a coat—Stealingtheir own blankets—Start for the Park—MammothSprings—Forest of dead pines—The Lake of theWoods—Norris Hot Springs and Geysers— * HellsHalf-acre —A perilous drive—Fire Hole River—Lower Geyser Springs—Old Faithful—TheBee Hive —The Grand Canon—Rough roads—Return—The Golden Gate — By Jove! itsFrank ! Fi^anks Ranche^ Od.^ 1885. )HE Yellowstone National Parklies partly in the territory of Wyo-ming and partly in that of Mon-tana. It is sixty-five miles northand south, by fifty-five miles east and west; itcomprises 3,575 square miles, and is through-out its extent 6,000 feet or more above thelevel of the sea. The mountain ranges thathem in the vall
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