Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-05-04

To one who goes through the Vel
,owstone park in the ordinary way;
that is. to view the beauties of nature
inst as Cooks tourists view the his
tor,c buildings and backgrounds of
rurope. there are many wonders and
haauties left unseen. Like the Euro
mean tourist all places marked by a
star are dutifully admired and ex-
claimed over, but only the beaten
rath is followed. The roads of the
mark become the Path of the Calf,
and in time become a thoroughfare.
The proper way to view the great
scenic wonders of the National park
Is to go with your own camping out
At. TO set stakes at a convenient place
and then to take side trips wherever
the fancy leads. In this way only
should the park be explored and in
this way only may one see marvels
that. perhaps, have been hidden for
centuries from the human eye.
Such a party went through the
mark a year or two ago. The we'll
beaten paths were crossed, but not
trodden. The starred wonders were
viewed and admired, but with no
especial interest, for these beauties
and these wonders were public prop
erty. What this party was after vas
the unusual and the unusual they
found. The Yellowstone park seldom
is disappointing to him who truly
seeks.
From a high peak a grove was dis
cerned in the distance. It's vernal
shades proclaimed It a most fitting
place for a camp and the party head
ed for 1t, approaching its deep shad-
ows as the sun sank resplendent in
the West. Beside a purling stream,
in which mountain trout made their
home, the tent was pitched and the
night was passed in silence except
BY the peculiar cry of the mountain
lion and the trumpet call OF the bull
elk. In the morning 1t was decided
to penetrate into the recesses of the
forest glade TO learn IL there the un-
usual or curious might be found, for
be II known, this party had heard
from Indians that in ages gone by
a.. H. u,rL hoA haap the hnpttpo
ground and the sacred council grove
Of the Great Lodge of tribes held only
in legendary memory by the tribes
holding the land at the time Of the
Lewis and Clark expedition In the
earliest years OF the last century.
They had heard OF legends of tribes
that had come from the north to
spend a time amid the forests in the
basin OF the Yellowstone, the Madi-
son and the Gallatin, and their own
historic lore supplemented the In
dian legend and told them that the
Yellowstone park was in the path OF
the ages; that through its glades the
predecessors OF the Toltecs had wan
dered. that the Toltecs themselves
may have halted for a while on their
southern pilgrimage and that the
Aztecs followed the Toltecs, to be
driven In turn southwark by the cave
dwellers and the aboriginal Indian
This party knew the legend, they
knew that General Lew Wallace had
heard it before he wrote the song
Of the pilgrimage In the Fair God
for they themselves had heard 1t from
an Indian princess of untold years
a princess in reality, fat and old
and ugly though she may be, to whom
Indians OF lesser birth paid yearly
homage. They knew this legend ant
they had read the theories Of th'
Invasion of the aboriginal population
Of Patagonia, OF Chill, of Peru, o
Ecuador, of Mexico. each tribe pushed
farther south by a succeeding tribe
stronger and more warlike, till thu
coming of Cortez destroyed the civ
i~lization OF the Aztecs and debaseC
the people until they became slaves
to the whites.
This party, then, hoped that som,
place, some time, some how, the
would come across some evidence o
the habitation of those former tribe
OF unknown people, and so they KEEP
away from the beaten paths and dive,
INTO forest recesses and into darl
canyons seldom II ever before trod
den by white feet. They were no
scientists. They had no desire +
study prehistoric history from pres
ent signs. They hoped only for tn
wlerd and wonderful, and this par
ucular day the wierd and wonderful
they found.
After the last grumbling over dish
washing had died away the boy
started into the mazes OF the fores
me trees We're mostly pine and fur!
'ne underbrush mahogany and jun
per The wind whispered ghostl
counsel fro NTH ahouubo oc 40 In the