Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-12-11
yellow stone Park.

iIoHh Tue CTOOkeu, eleNateu canon pds>
near the foot of the second canon of the
Yellowstone toits gate of the noun
tains at the lovely trail pass to Fort
Ellis, the main Yellowstone and the
west fork OF the Gallatin run north
erly, nearly parallel, and but a lew
miles apart. But between them tow
ers into snow-capped peaks 1900 and
10000 feet high, one of the blackeSt.
roughest. most repellant and most i'm
passable baSSaltic mountain ranges
upon the continent. While its western
side towers from the lovely Gallatin
valley above Bozeman and Fort Ellis
like battlements amid the clouds, its
eastern deScends in basaltic terraces to
the enchanting Bother Park along the
Yellowstone. These terraces, gashed
with countless more recent earthquake
fissure rents, usually somewhat Baral-
lei with the main range and each other,
often hundreds, sometimes thousands
of feet deep, and no wider, with tower
ing, rugged, often impossible walls of
black, red, violet, and other sOmbre-
hued pudding stone, basalt and lava,
mingled with scattering dwarf pine and
cedar, fringed the grassy slopes. These
again, cross-furrowed by tine narrow,
tortuOus, yawning canon, outlets OF the
huge hot springs. pure crystal lakes
and grassy cedar fringed elf, sheltered
parks high amid eternal SHOWS, unite
to form a region of matchless, enchant-
ing beauty and repellant hOrrer. The
countless bleaching horns and bones.
and few domesticated specimens roam
tie, alone attest the recent occupancy of
the valley by the curly bison or noun
tain buffalo, But the sharp-eyed, fleet
footed antelope and blacktail along the
terraced grassy slopes; the fierce vol
VERNE and mountain lion in the dense
thickets, ferocious grizzly in the rug
ged canon passes, speckled trout and
tufted waterfowl of the lovely lakes.
the stately antlered elk stalking proud
" through cedar groves and secluded
grassy glens- and the majestic bighorr
gazing leisurely from, or dashing fear
lessly along the rocky battlements high
amid snow and cloud, still seem as of
yOre, game and scenery combined,
forming not for the timid pilgrim, but
for the bold, experienced. clifi-climb- |
ing mOuntaineer an earthly hunters /.
-. F,h r.l II IL l.
parted Indian warrior beyond the dis /
tant mountains. This has ever been |
the chosen hunting ground of Freder- |
ick Bother, the 'mishty hunter of the !
(immOrtalized by Profess |
sor IIayden's scene of him amid his five |
huge antlcred elk laying as they fell |
before his deathly rifle in the famous
of '"The Successful Hun |
ter and here for the past eight years
we have together closed our mountain |
sport fOI the season and with uniform |
success. We this year, oil the morn
ing of October ., with our saddle and |
pack horses passed where the Scottish |
Earl Dun Raven killed his largest big
horn, and Texas Jack from a branched |
tree top thankfully saw his wounded /
grizzly demOlish his Winchester instead /
of himself, to one of our chosen h..unts /
seldom visited by white men, and never
by Indians. deep and worn amid sur
crags and snow. At2O'clOck
Z. NJ. we picketed our horses still
saddled for use) in a small grassy glade
and recommended a hunt, which Par
son Murray, of Adirondack fame, would
have enjoyed a month and chronicled a
lifetime. both, with us, soon finished
At this ruting season of the year the
huge antlered elk, when heated i'm the
chase. cool themselves, buffalo like. in
wallow beds, only more wet and mud
ly. While guided by the loud, pecu-
liar, wooing elk whistle, we were eau
tiously approaching one of these haunts
in thicket of PiniOn pines, Frederick,
who was in advance. discovered an ap-
grizzly. and at a distance of
fifty yards gave him a mortal shot
the neck and breast, but as he
charged instantly stopped him with a
bullet crashing through the brain.
Three other grizzly, until then unseen,
reared snOrting in the thicket, but
while Withholding our fire for deadly
him in their expected charge, as usual.
when attacked, they strangely slid
from sight in retreat In trailing them
I, when some distance from Frederick,
brought down very large and fine
.ow elk, with one bullet through the
breast, two through the lungs, and
with the fourth broke her neck, ali sent
Is fast as possible from a Winchester
-ifle- Before reaching my game, Fred
rick, who had meantime killed an an
elope and a sheep, and becoming
alarmed at my rapid firing, came up
'reathless TO join in an expected bear
light, and only throating our game we ;