New-York tribune., 1922-04-23
By EYRE POWELL.

HNHIs year celebrates the golden anniver-
sary Of the Yellowstone Americas S
~ greatest national park.
When, on June 10, the train that car
IS the first regular travellers 10 enter the
and old playground in It's gala hfteth year
-ayes Salt Lake City for the park entrance at
Vest Yellowstone, every de luxe car in It's
n'be-up and every person aboard VIII be
tribute and vindication to a man once called
he greatest liar Of his tifne-the man who not
Only discovered the Yellowstone but Great Salt
AXE as well.
Early in the SOS a solitary trapper pushed
uough an unknown, Indian-infested region to
the north Of the great Teton Range. He had
eft the country of the Grows aid Sioux behind
and pushing toward that Of the Blackfoot
lribe, crossed divide and entered region
uch as he in all his wanderings had never be-
ore seen or dreamed of. Below him was j
| IaNey from which rose thousand smokes,
Isnd as his way led hin do,,n into it, he passed
hot, bubbling springs and saw that the smokes
were Jets of living steam.
for with a rear a gigantic column of boiling
water and steam rose in front Of him hun
dged feet high,
dim Brldgcr had discovered the Yellowstone.
Imagine poor old Bridgers predicament
len he returned TO civilization with his tales
Of boiling hot springs "as big as a mans body,
Spouting higher than the fiagpole IN Nirgini~
Cty'; of a gushing, roaring, spewng hell bach
there in the mountains, filled with wonders
such as no man had ever seen hN'~~~.
For Bridger had acquired a rep~-.ion far
and wide as the inventor of unbelIevably wild
tales With which to regale the tenderfoot.
And now that he had really seen the most
Marvellous thing of its kind in the world,
thing that outstripped even his widest imagin-
ngs, no Que would believe him!
In fact, people Of the day proposed to carve
Is his epitaph;
Here LIES jim Bridger"
But the tales excited curiosity, and in 1869
David Folsom, c. ". Cook and a helper named
PETERSON penetrated up TO Yellowstone Lake,
srerward crossing over to the Firehole River
enQ up as far as the Lower Geyser Basin.
4Aey didn't even get as far as Old Faithful, or
nee the wonders surrounding it, but what they
~a see was SO wonderful that they hcsitated to
e" their story TO any but intimate friends lest
"ley acquire reputation like Bridg-r's.
Following them came the Washburn exped-
"on' organized by Nathaniel Pitt Langford,
"lch visited Y Yellowstone Lake all Of the sey-
ser oasins and Yellowstone Canyon and Falls,
rnd named Mount Washburn Old Faithful
ueyser and other now famous points in the
Wonderland
As the direct result Of their work the bill
creating the Yellowstone National Park was
Passed by Congress on March I, 1872.
Now fifty years later, when the first visi-
WIS at the opening Of Yelowstone's golden
.AIiFersary season go through they will travel
-0t as "ashburn and Langford did with pack
,1ln'aIs' through brush and with river beds
VI }falis but over a faultess road from West
@ello"stone in vehicles which had not been
SacelTed in the early explorers day; and
,aeh they arrive at what is row Madison
junction they will cross She river and find,
w. on point under the shadow Of National