Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-09-22
An Account of Trip to
~ Yellowstone National Park

Yellow
BY the Edito
On Saturday morning, Aug. 6, we
"broke camp" for the fourth and last
time in Yellowstone National Park
The breakfast prepared and served that
morning by our good ladies, was our
last meal as campers. We all had en-
big and grandly beautiful open air
dining room, that we were 10th to dis
continue this mode of living. There is
certain fascination as well as good
health in tenting, especially when the
weather is fine. After breakfast, we
motored up to the Mammoth Hot
Springs Hotel to .replenish the gasoline
supply Of our cars, make the rounds of
the curiO stores and to cast last look
at the snOwy-white Hot Springs Ter
races. This having been done, we re-
traced our way to Gardiner, where we
had entered the. park on the previous
Tuesday afternoon. With sad hearts
almost we left the park. We realized
that we had seen one of the most won
derful regions on the face of the earth.
Our boys were fortunate in picking
up and obtaining permission from the
authorities to carry away pair of elk
horns, which they mounted in front Of
the car, thereby giving it considerable
distinction during the remainder Of the
trip. From Gardiner we retraced our
way to Livingston where we arrived at
IN, AIo
our good friends, Mr.. and Mrs. O. s..
Anderson, again showed their kind
heartedness and hospitality towards us
by inviting us to their elegant home
and giving us very fine and substan-
tial supper. When we started for the
park Mrs. Anderson had supplied our
commissary department with new po-
tatoes, carrots, beets, onions and other
fresh vegetables from her fine garden.
1t is people like Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson
who are the salt of the earth and we
cannot thank them enough for their
Kindness On this occasion we had the
pleasure to meet also their two married
daughters and their husbands, also two
brothers of Mr.. Anderson, Charleygand
Martin, by name. After supper we
babe farewell to these kind friends and
continued our trip Mr.. and Mrs. N. E.
accompany them to their home at Great
Falls for visit, promising also to show
us all the greatness and glory of Mon
tana, and we were delighted to accept
their invitation. We had many auto
mobile trips together with Mr.. and Mrs
Bystrom when they lived at Warren
and last summer we toured .Glazier
Park together with them. We have al
ways had such good times together on
these trips-in fact. no one scan help
having asgoods time together with 1 EsaS;;sl
and Mrs. Bystrolaa--they are such gen
ial and kind hearted people-always
considerate of the welfare of others.
After supper we babe farewell to the
Andersons and left in our cars for
Bozeman, one of the oldest towns in
Montana and former center Of the
largest ranching interest of the state,
about 20 miles west from Livingston.
We were now to see old Montana,
where there's plenty room and air."
and there surely is plenty of elbow
room in that state, as it is, the: third
largest state in the union, its sdimen-
sions being 315 miles from north to
south and $50 miles from east to- west,
containing an area Of 146,572. square
miles nearly twice the size of Mime
sofa. When we think of Montana we
always think of it as the home Of the
buffalo, the Indian and the cowboy and
at Bozeman we expected to see visual
lied before us the spirit of old pioneer
days in the wild and woody west, be-
cause, mark we'll, Bozeman was then
having her second annual Roundup,
when old cowboys and Indians in odd
and snowy costumes, expert riders and
brOncho- busters gather from the entire
state, to engage in contests Of skill,
strength and endurance, sports and
pastimes of the old west, that land of
romance, pathOs and tragedy which is
rapidly passing before the Onslaughts
of advancing modern civilization. 1t
was late in the evening when we ar
rived in Bozeman on the last day of the
Roundup and just in time to miss it
all. The streets were brilliantly lit up
and crowded with people and automo-
biles. "She's Wild" could truly be said
of BoZeman that night. We were I'M
able to secure rooms at any hotel, but
through the assistance of the enter
tainment committee Of the commercial
club we finally were. comfortably
housed for the night in a private home.
Next morning we had considerable
difficulty to find restaurant that SER
we'd breakfast, as the help evidently
was tired out after the three days and
three nights celebration. In a Chinese
restaurant at last we were able to
buy a scanty breakfast. We motored
little around the city which is beauti-
fully located in the heart Of the Rocky
mountains and is the metropolis Of the
fertile Gallatin valley. It's populate
is 1900. It is the seat Of the Montana
Agricultural College and as we left the
city we viewed the college buildings
and the numerous agricultural expert
ment plots near by. The great mining
city of Butte, ia miles distant, was
our next objective point and we turned
our automobiles in that direction.
From 3Bozeman to Butte, distance
Of 114 miles, the road at first leads
through fine farming or ranching cOun-