The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . d to the world. Hecared little for any country that was destitute of coloror pay. But the hints he dropped put others on thetrack and opened the door to real discovery. This fact of long delay in the discovery of the UpperYellowstone is the most important in its history. Had itbeen known at an earlier date, its fate would have beendeplorably different*. The period of the fur trade was tooearly for the interest of the people to demand, or the powerof the government to enforce, its protection.
The Yellowstone national park, historical and descriptive, illustrated with maps, views and portraits . d to the world. Hecared little for any country that was destitute of coloror pay. But the hints he dropped put others on thetrack and opened the door to real discovery. This fact of long delay in the discovery of the UpperYellowstone is the most important in its history. Had itbeen known at an earlier date, its fate would have beendeplorably different*. The period of the fur trade was tooearly for the interest of the people to demand, or the powerof the government to enforce, its protection. If CaptainRaynolds had discovered it, all its most valuable tractswould have beeii pre-empted long before the governmentwould have been able to give it attention. Fortunately,the discovery was delayed until there was a considerablepopulation in the country near by, and the government wasprepared actively to consider the matter. Before settlerscould establish a permanent foothold, the Papk was cre-ated, and all the vexatious obstacles, which might other-wise have defeated the project, were CHAPTER XII. LATER EXPLORATIONS. As soon as the remarkable character of the countr}- aboutthe sources of the Yellowstone became generally known,there was a rush of explorers to its borders. Every expedi-tion that could possibly extend the field of its labors in thatdirection did so, and there was scarcely a summer duringthe next twenty years that the Park was not the scene ofsome official exploration or visit. By far the most important of these were the variousexpeditions under the United States Geological Hay den was again in the country with two parties in1872, and very widely extended the range of observationsof the previous year. In 1878, survey parties againentered the Park and resumed work there on a much moreminute and extensive scale. The result of that yearsexplorations appeared in 1883 in the form of an elaboratereport by Dr. Hayden and his co-workers, which ent
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