Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-09-24
THE YELLOWsTONEi
AGraphic Description Of
ssWomder Land"
Especial Correspondence to the Corinne
Mail. ]

= Virginia City. Montana,
/. September 10Th, 1875.
J. Eda Maik In compliance with you
2 Request send you short letter.
4 We have made the Grand Rounds
e from Virginia City. up the Madison, Il
the Geyser country, over the divide t
! the Yellowstone Lake, down the river Il
! 1.-THE great falls; to the Mammoth Sprng'
, lon Gardiner's River, on to Bozeman and
back again, and are not happy yet. F0'
We long to swing around the same cir
Gle again, and instead of month, take q
whole summer and fall for it. To sum II
, all up in . few words, we were d'eap
!. pointed and most happily 80. Mr.. Lang.
ford, Harry Norton and others have said
J. 50 much about the Wonder Land that
we expected to find more wind than SUBJ
stance. We were seven days of steady
travel, making the ninety miles over q
very good wagon road to the lower gey,
ser basin. We were glad to tske rest
from the very wearriness of slow travel
and the exercise of punching up, not a
lazy, but an overladen packhorse. Had
the country continued to be what we had
LEFT, mountain of sage brush and waste
|of traceless hills and valleys, We should
ave been disgusted beyond recovery.
But up the Madison the surrounding
landscape constantly changes, affording
10 panorama of interesting views that
keeps the mind occupied ard the tedious
ness of slow march is not realized. The
sensation is that we have paased into a
new world, younger and fresher one
The parched gray barren world is left
behind, and about US is the greenness and
yerdure of early spring. Densely wood
young and shapcly trees ornamenting
the loveliest valleys. with mirror lakes
and dancing water brooks. The m ind
becomes gradually prepared for the mar
velous scenes which will soon follow, and
we wander over acres of hot spring for
nation with perfectly at home feeling;
we are the natural inhabitants of an eu-
chsnteL country, and we feast upon mar
vels of great beauty. The transparent,
depth of emerald pools are but the gate
ways to other lands of enchantment be
low.
We encamped for eight days among the
monsters and saw them all, except one,
doing their ''level best" at spouting. We
were always ready to listen to the elo-
quence Of the Giant or the Grand, to watch
their noble columns mount majestically|
or to wonder ut the comm0.
ton inside the Castle walls, hastily get
ting down the ramparts when she let's OFT
her old columblne charged with boiling
water, more dreadful than shot and shell. J
Listening to the busy hum Of life within
the Beehive, with ear and eye TO its dark
little orfice. causes sudden changing OF
position, and retreat up the hill. It 10 NOT
a beehive At all, but . mighty fire engine,
found to equench the sun, and he plays
away at it every day, but the sun still
shines, Old Faithful-just because she is
faithful-she 10 not of so much interest !
We know almost the exact minute when
hcr beautiful display will take place. We
simply stand and look for about FIVE min.
utes once every hour, and then off for new
wonders. Because she is more difficult
and more modest in starting her powers
than any of the others, we greatly desire
to see the Gisntess ION q spree" We
coaxed and cajoled, spent the greater par,
of our time about her, sat up with her
late at night, and finally slept with her,
but there was no use, she wouldn't play,
but she got very angry, full to the rim
with boiling suds.