Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-18
BEAUTIFUL
Yellowstone Park with Its Grand and Won
tartul Scenery.

GpGlul SeCWgiIi
The principle reason why theYellow-
stone Park country was so long un-
known was the incredulity Of the pub
lie and it's refusal to believe the amaz-
ing stories that were told of the nat
ural wonders it contains. The first
white man to witness these wonders
was a trapper named Golfer, who ac-
companied Lewis & Clark in their
celebrated exploration of the North
west in 1905 When they arrived at
Mandan on their return in 1906 Golfer
was discharged and went into the en-
ploy of the Northwestern Fur Com
pany. In pursuit Of 'is occupation he
entered the Yellow> ooLe valley and
followed it to this region. by the In
dians called the Summit of the World
because it is the source of all the great
rivers of the West. The roadway be-
tween Old Faithful and Yellowstone
Lake crosses the grand continental di-
vide twice, where little spring upon
the summit of the continental feeds
two rivulets, flowing in different direc-
tions, and forming thus continuous
water connection between the Allan
tic and Pacific oceans, and covering a
distance of more than six thousand
miles.
Besides the road between Mammoth
Hot Springs and Norris Basin and the
Twin Lakes presents a similar phe-
nomenon. They were formerly sin
gle body of water until the beavers.
built a dam across the middle and di-
vided them almost eqally. The wafer
of one of these little lakes flows north
ward into the Yellowstone and finds
its way through Inc Missouri and Mis-
sissippi rivers into the Gulf of Mexico.
The other feeds into Gibbon river,
which flows westward into the Snake,
the Columbia and the Pacific ocean.
When they were one lake they had two
outlets as now The water of one of
these lakes is a dense dark blue and
sparkles Ike a sapphire. The other,
from whatever point you observe it, is
a vivid green. like the color of the
waves Of The ocean when they rise be-
tween you and the light.
There is no doubt that Golfer digcoy-
cred the geysers, the Yellowstone Lake
and Others Of the most remarkable cur
iosities in the park, but when he told
about them upon his return to ST.
Louis in 1911 people refused to believe
him, and, in ridicUle, called the region
which he clsimel 20 have visited Col
ter's He'll" This name appears upon
many Of the early maps and was at
tacLed 20 the Yellowstone Park coun-
try for a least a quarter of a century.
CoiJer was not The only discoyerer
of the Yellowstone Park, but suffered
the most extraordinary experience of
any man that ever visited the region.
The Indians attacked him and killed
his Farmer. Golfer was taken prison
CT, stripped naked, led to a point 300
CT 400 yards in advance Of n body OF
about 200 bucks and ordered to run for
his life. lie ala 20, with half a
thousa1d bowling s3vages after him.
This happened, fortunately for Golfer,
before on lndulgent government sup
G)ie' ' wild wards with shooting i'm
p'ew0.s and K seemed to be under
stood .'at bows and arrows must not
be u' against the fugitive. Golfer,
being o,artaEen by one feet Indian,
tlrol and klllel him. Then, resum-
ing hi- fight. he plunged into a river
and concealed himself under some
logs so effectively that the Indians
supposed he was drowned.
TIE reXt man TO bring news of the
Yellowstone Park aud IFS wonders was
jim Er.dger, after Kit Carson, the
most famous scout ever known upon
the fro- ler. He was Carson's part
ner, was with Fremont on both expe-
d'tiors 20 California, discovered the
Great salt Lake and the pass through
which Tie overland caravans crossed
The continental divide. Army engi-
Eeers usod to say that Jim Bridger was
the hest natural topographer ever born
Captain Gunnison, in a report to the
government declared that 1Bridger
could draw an accurate map of the en-
tire Rocky Mountain region from
memory on the back Of buffalo hide
with a piece Of charcoal.
The public refused for many years tc
aesUt Bridger's report OF the Great