Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-08-27
.PLUCKY GIRLS TOUR
YELLOWSTONE PARK
Miss Grace Baker of Pullman Writes
Interestingly of Long Automobile
Trip Taken by Five Girls

II is quite an unusual thing for a
group of young women to venture
forth on a long automobile trip, over
hills, mountains and winding roads.
Miss Grace Baker of Pullman served
as pilot and chauffeur for five young
women who made the trip to Yellow
stone park and return recently and
was prevailed upon by The Herald
man to write the following account
of the long trip.
Just a brief resume of a most in
teresting and exciting trip so that
other pleasure seekers may be in
spired to take trips through the won
derful country which so completely
surrounds us and which is SO acces-
sible.
Together with four girl friends |
left Spokane at noon July l, having
been given a royal send-off by family,
friends and newspaper photographer.
The car used was a 400 Chevrolet,
carrying five girls, five suitcases, and
a small-sized pantry. The aim wac
to take our time, see the country as
We travelled and not to get too tired
by long stretches of driving. We
cooked by the roadside in real camp
style as we had only a few necessar-
les of camp life. We spent our nights
in good hotels, where we could really
rest.
We followed the Yellowstone Trail
through the Fourth of July canyon to
Wallace, where we spent the first
night. The canyon road is very good,
though narrow and winding. We did
not get out of Wallace very early
next day, due to ''watered gas" bur
The trip over the Bitter Root noun
tains is one never to be forgotten
The road is steep, narrow and rough,
which is a bad combination. We
branched off from the main trail at
Garrison and went to Helena over
Priests pass (59S4 feet elevation) :,
which was the best and prettiest road
outside of the park. We spent July
4 at Helena, where we had a fine
trip through the Montana state cap
ital building, and also INDUCED in q
dip in their fine natural warm springs
plunge. From Helena we went to
Bozeman, which is a very attractive
little city of some 5000. BoZeman
boasts of a splnedid tourist camp in
the heart of the city, every convent
ence being furnished, also entertain
ment in the form of two band con-
ccrts a week. From Bozeman to
Livingston, to Gardiner and into the
park completed our trip over.
There are no words to justly de-
scribe the park. 1t is so full of nat
ural wonders at every turn that one
| is almost overcome by the realiza-
ton that such a variety of oddities
is to be found in an area of 334S
square miles. The camp life in the
park can not be surpassed. The
tents are fine, beds excellent and SO
much food was served that we felt
stuffed all the time. We were in the
park nine days, only wishing We
could stay many more. We saw
bears, buffalo, deer, elk, wood.
chucks, a raccoon, porcupine, many
wild birds, and beavers at work. The
fishing in the park is great and we
had some splendid salmon and
speckled trout.
We came home by way of Butte
and found the worst road between
Three Forks and Butte. 1t was just
like life-sized scenic railway and
was also hard driving, so I was very
willing to rest at Butte. We were
very fortunate to see one of the large
mines at Butte, being taken 260C
feet down one shaft of the NORTH
Butte mine. At Anaconda we laid
over a day and went through the
smelter, which they claim is the larg-
est in the world and which was a
wonderful thing to see.
From Anaconda to Missoula was
the next lap of our journey. Thirty
miles from Missoula we were caught
in mountain thunderstorm, but had
to keep going as there was no place
to get shelter. That was once I was
good and wet because I couldn't have
a curtain on my side to hinder my
view of the road.
At Missoula we again branched
off, going north through the Flat
head reservation to Ravalli and west
to Thompson Falls, where we spent
the night, thence through Clarkes-
fork to Standpoint.
The morning of July 22 we left