The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-09-08

CODY, wyo., Aug. 13.-Out on the
Wonderland trail, in one of the lonliest
spots. Buffalo Bill has built for himself
tomb. in which he will be buried. 1t
is on the apex of Rattlesnake noun
tain, and is almost inaccessible except
to the experienced mountain climber.
Cody has made provision in his will for
the expenses necessary to remove his
body to the mountain, no matter in
what country of the globe he shall die.
Cody has lived long enough to see
another of his dreams realized-the
opening of his long-talked-of Cody
Trail Through. Wonderland, the trail"
being a new route to the Yellowstone
National Park, a "trair' passing
through what the famous scout and In
dian fighter says is the finest 100 miles
of scenery in the world.
SEES DREAM REALIZED.
1t has been the dream of the last
forty years of Col. Cody's life to estab-
lish road running into the Yellow
stone National Park from the east and
passing through the famous Yellow
stone forest reservation, where Col
Cody, as well as others who have
passed over the route, say can be found
sights and scenes superior to even the
national park. which adjoins the re-
serve on the west, and which the Cody
Trail to Wonderland" leads.
Col. Cody years ago laid out the route
which he wanted to use. He didn't
have the assistance of an engineer in
doing so, because it was not his OBJ
ject to make short line or to avoid
difficulties. The first object of the
trail" was to pass through the best
scenery, and 1t didn't make much diff
ference how much out of the way of
air line the trail went.
ORIGINATES AT HIS OWN TOWN
Eventually it would end at the Lake
Hotel, in the Yellowstone National
Park, and it's originating point was on
the Shoshone river in the Big Horn
basin, where later the Colonel located
his home and the town of Cody.
1t is out of the "trail'' that Col. Cody
has established his two hunting lodges,
Wapiti Wickiup and Pahaska Tepee.
The first takes its name from the
Wapiti branch of the Shoshone river,
on which II Is located, while the second
is named directly for Buffalo Bill
Pahaska Tepee meaning "the home of
the long-haired man" Gong Hair is an
Indian name for Col. Cody)
IDEAL MOUNTAIN HOME.
white Beaver" Powell, Col. Cody s
foster brother, says this about Pahaska
| Tepee: THE tepee is in the heart OF
! the big game country of the Rocky
mountains. Purest water from noun
tain springs and melting SHOWS are
| filed with rainbow salmon, mountain
| and brook trout. and on every side
huge mountains tower thousands OF
feet into the air. Some of those noun
tains are capped with snow all the year
round"
The Pahaska Tepee is the largest log
cabin in the world and will accommo-
date something like 100 persons Wa
| pitt WiCkiup, twenty-five miles nearer
civilization than the tepee, will take
care OF so persons.
Is A ROMANTIC TRAIL.
The road from Cody to the Yellow
| stone skirts mountains and rivers, dark
ravines and appalling precipces AT
| one time half up the side of the noun
| tain 1t goes; at another it winds its
way along the bottom of some black
canyon through which n mountain
stream roars and plunges. Through
the Rattlesnake canyon of the Shoshone
several short tunnels, so difficult has
the work been.