Author: Yellowstone National Park

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-22

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781390917130

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1880 N 0 one, lacking practical experience with untimely Sierra snows and floods, can form an adequate conception of the difficulties of repairing or constructing grades, culverts, or bridges, over fifty miles of mountain roads of the character of those in this region. All difficulties were, how ever, finally surmounted, and after fording both the Fire Hole Rivers near their forks with my party, I ascended a stream from the west, mak ing camp where a bison-trail descended from the plateau toa cold-spring rivulet on the margin of a lovely, grassy valley, which, being dotted with spouting hot springs, we called Geyser Meadows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.