5 special tours & 3 mid-winter tours under escort to California . 85 i:. THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. THE reservation known as the Yellowstone National Park, set apart for publicuses by an act of Congress passed in 1872, originally covered a tract of aboutsixty-five miles in length from north to south, and about fifty-five miles inwidth from east to west, lying chiefly in northwestern Wyoming, and overlapping, toa small extent, the boundary of Montana on the north and of Idaho on the gave an area of about 3,575 square miles. To this was added in 1891 a forestreservation of nearly 2
5 special tours & 3 mid-winter tours under escort to California . 85 i:. THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. THE reservation known as the Yellowstone National Park, set apart for publicuses by an act of Congress passed in 1872, originally covered a tract of aboutsixty-five miles in length from north to south, and about fifty-five miles inwidth from east to west, lying chiefly in northwestern Wyoming, and overlapping, toa small extent, the boundary of Montana on the north and of Idaho on the gave an area of about 3,575 square miles. To this was added in 1891 a forestreservation of nearly 2,000 square miles, comprising the country adjacent to theformer park on the south and east. Thus the area of the national reservation hasbeen extended eight miles south and about twenty-four miles east. The RockyMountains cross the southwestern portion in an irregular line, leaving by far thegreater expanse on the eastern side. The lowest elevation of any of the narrowvalleys is 6,000 feet, and some of them are from 1,000 to 2,000 feet higher. Themountain ranges which
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