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Campbell's new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park . he first to cross the Absaroka Range. With CaptainJones was Prof. Theodore B. Comstock, a noted geologist. Their routecarried them over the much talked of Two Ocean Pass, and their reportverified its existence and that of Pacific and Atlantic Creeks. Another engineer followed in 1875, Capt. WilHam Ludlow, who had withhim George Bird Grinnell, the noted editor of Forest and Stream. 22 From this expedition we have the first accurate measurements of the Fallsof the Yellowstone. Also in 1875 came Sec
Campbell's new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park . he first to cross the Absaroka Range. With CaptainJones was Prof. Theodore B. Comstock, a noted geologist. Their routecarried them over the much talked of Two Ocean Pass, and their reportverified its existence and that of Pacific and Atlantic Creeks. Another engineer followed in 1875, Capt. WilHam Ludlow, who had withhim George Bird Grinnell, the noted editor of Forest and Stream. 22 From this expedition we have the first accurate measurements of the Fallsof the Yellowstone. Also in 1875 came Secretary of War Belknap and partyunder the guidance of Lieutenant Doane. Two years later, in 1877, Gen. W. T. Sherman and staff visited the Park,official report of which was made by staff officer, Col. O. M. Poe. Butthe most interesting chapter of 1877 was the pursuit of Chief Joseph and hisband of Nez Perce warriors by Gen. O. O. Howard, and the capture bythe Nez Perces at the Lower Basin of a party of tourists from Raders-berg, Montana. In that year the Indians all over the northwest were, for. A BEAVER DAM. the most part, on the warpath; it was only the year previous that the gallantCuster and his brave followers were cruelly massacred not very far away,and while there was no actual outbreak among them, near the Park therewas a feeling of unrest. General Sherman had just passed through the Park and had written toSecretary of War McCreary that there was no reason to apprehend dangerfrom Indians. But Chief Joseph, White Bird, Looking Glass and Big Thun-der took a different view of the situation; these and their followers were by 23 their own actions outside of a treaty made in 1863, and after a failure by aCommission sent in 1876 to pacify the Nez Perces, General Howard wassent to put them back on their Reservation. In the early summer of 1877 several families of whites had been murderedby the Indians and three battles fought between them and the troops underGeneral Howard and G
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