What to see in America . n article from his description, and then suppressed itbecause a man who knew Bridger told him he would belaughed out of town if he printed any of old Jim Bridgerslies. Undoubtedly Bridger had a habit of reckless exag-geration in telling his experiences, and such was his reputationfor romancing that the facts he related about the Yellowstonewere set down as the harmless vaporings of a mind to whichtruth had long been a stranger. You can judge why theyshould so decide from the following example of his stories: Far off across the plain from a camping place where Ioften st
What to see in America . n article from his description, and then suppressed itbecause a man who knew Bridger told him he would belaughed out of town if he printed any of old Jim Bridgerslies. Undoubtedly Bridger had a habit of reckless exag-geration in telling his experiences, and such was his reputationfor romancing that the facts he related about the Yellowstonewere set down as the harmless vaporings of a mind to whichtruth had long been a stranger. You can judge why theyshould so decide from the following example of his stories: Far off across the plain from a camping place where Ioften stopped was a high mountain that rose on the side toward my camp in asteep bare precipice ofrock. It was so dis-tant that the echo ofany sound in the campdid not return forabout six hours, andI made the mountainserve as an alarmclock. When I wasabout to retire for thenight I would call outlustily, Time to getup! And the alarmwould come back thenext morning at justthe hour that I wanted Riverside Geyser -^ to bestir By Haynts Wyoming 373 The discovery of the Yellowstone Wonderland, so far asits full and final disclosure to the world is concerned, was thework of three parties, the first of which visited it in consisted of three men who went to the region to verifyor refute the rumors concerning it which had been agitatingthe people of ^lontana for some years. They set out Sep-tember 6 from Diamond City on the Missouri River, fortymiles from Helena, and in the thirty-six days before theyreturned saw the Yellowstone Falls and many of the otherattractive and marvelous features of the country. A party of nineteen went to the region the next were nine civilians from Helena, a small military escort,and two packers and two colored cooks. They had thirty-five horses and mules, and altogether the outfit made quitean imposing cavalcade. It was very successful in its ex-ploring, but on September 9, while traversing the laby-rinths of fallen timberbetween the proj
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