The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-29
INDICATE THE BIGGEST LIAR
Discoverer of Yellowstone Laughed
at-NoVV Celebration at Hand

Discoverer of Yellowstone Laughed
at-NoSV Celebration at Hand
Years ago old Jim Bridger discov-
cred the Yellowstone.
But when he. tried to tell of the
gigantic geysars. rivers that ran colo
on top and hot on the bottom and
Emonstrous waterfalls. the country
laughed at him, and he became known
as the greatest liar of his time.
! Imagine the hard luck. With
reputation already made as the InYen-
/ tor of many a fanciful tale of the old
west, TO really discover a thing be-
yond even his own widest imaginings,
and then to be branded a liar!
rough deal, indeed.
But 1922 marks the golden ami
park. And this year every traveller
who goes to the wonderland to help
celebrate the gala year. every de luxe
train that runs from Salt Lake CITY
| Iowstone, will be a vindication for
poor old Bridger.S
His biggest lie was the truth.
There have been many changes to
the Yellowstone since Bridger's day
as travellers who come this year will
find. Where he went in overland
with pack horses, they roll in over
a steel highway in de luxe trains,
whose service this year will be dou-
bled In addition to the famous ''Yel-
Iowstone Special which nightly
flashes over the rails from Salt Lake
to the park entrance, there will be
daylight train. which will enable the
visitor to see the scenic mountain
wonders of the Targhee Forest, en-
route to the park itself
Arriving at West Yellowstone, more
changes are evident. Where Bridger
went thru the brush, and used river
beds as trails, this summers traveller
will find a matchless system of high
awaiting him. He can select any one
of half a dozen trips thru the WON
derland. Instead of. mountain trails
there is a system of matchless- high
ways. Hotels with every modern
convenience await him in the heart
of the wilderness Permanent camps
offer equal comfort and attraction.
But both hotels and camps have been
so skillfully constructed that their
rustic log architecture adds to the nat
uraI wild beauty of the whole.
Thru all this is a. wonderful system
of cooperation between government,
railroads, hotels. camps. and transport
tation that enables 100000 people to
see the whole park annually. And
yet with all these changes, so have
they been kept to the spirit of the
place, the park is the same old yell
lowstone.
what it should be. The animals, wild
in Bridger'S day, are tame now. Bears
eat from your hand. Grazing elk
herds raise lordly heads to watch the
bus caravans roll by. Deer pause by
the roadside, and eye them specula-
lively. Mighty rainbow trout leap
from the river to tempt the anglers.
Clear and deep, the Yellowstone
river flows on, unchanged. The voice
of the falls booms forth in the key it
used when the moon was young. the
geysers spout at the same regular in
tervals as they did before Columbus
made his historic first immigration to
American shores. Deep carpets OF
pine needles, the accumulation of CEN
turtles invite rest in the shadows o. !
pines that started growing when the !
ground first grew cool.
Unusual activity is promised for the |
yeySerS this year. The snowfall was
ibnormally heavy last winter, and the |
moisture which will make the falls |
and cascades of unusual beauty will |
add to the sensational performances of |
polling springs, geysers and mud pots |
Even nature has assisted, this year |
N the vindication of Jim Bridger's
suspected tongue, and the stage is set
or wonderful opening of the parks
.iftieth anniversary.