Haynes new guide and motorists' complete road log of Yellowstone National Park . orate pack-train expedition that has ever been enrolled. The routelay from Green Eiver on the Union Pacific E. E., to Liv-ingston on the Northern Pacific Eailway. F. Jay Haynes, at that time Official Photographer ofthe Park, procured many interesting photographs of theparty and the places they saw on this famous expedi-tion. Winter Exploration in 1887.—In January, 1887,the first successful winter exploration of the Yellowstoneregion was made. Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka ofArctic fame headed the party consisting
Haynes new guide and motorists' complete road log of Yellowstone National Park . orate pack-train expedition that has ever been enrolled. The routelay from Green Eiver on the Union Pacific E. E., to Liv-ingston on the Northern Pacific Eailway. F. Jay Haynes, at that time Official Photographer ofthe Park, procured many interesting photographs of theparty and the places they saw on this famous expedi-tion. Winter Exploration in 1887.—In January, 1887,the first successful winter exploration of the Yellowstoneregion was made. Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka ofArctic fame headed the party consisting of several easternmen, F. Jay Haynes, photographer, and a corps of guides,packers and assistants. Their outfit consisted of astro-nomical instruments, photographic equipment, sleepingbags and provisions which were drawn on toboggans; theparty used Norwegian skis and Canadian web snowshocs,but the snow was so light that they sank readily and thetoboggans were exceedingly difficult to draw. It tookthree days to cover the twenty miles from Mammoth YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 149. WILD BUFFALO HERD Springs to Norris Basin; and the temperature the firstnight at Indian Creek was 37° below zero. Unfortunately Lieut. Schwatka fell ill at Norris andwas unable to proceed. Mr. Haynes, desirous of obtain-ing a collection of winter photographs of the Park, em-ployed two of the sturdiest men of the Schwatka party,and with Edward Wilson, a government scout, resumedthe journey. The toboggans were abandoned and this party packedtheir equipment and provisions on their backs—each mancarrying about forty-five pounds. Norris Basin was a gorgeous sight. Craters hereto-fore unnoticed by these men familiar with the Park insummer, steamed conspicuously. The foliage was heav-ily laden with ice near the steam vents and geysers, pro-ducing all the fantastic forms possible to imagine; whilethe entire basin resembled a vast manufacturing centre. Tall trees buried in the snow appeared like bushes,and the
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