Within the Walls of Yellowstone - Classic Accounts and Poetry of the World's First National Park

Various

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Widely believed to be the first national park in the world, Yellowstone is an American national park situated in the western United States spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. World famous for its wildlife and geothermal features, it contains a large range of biomes and is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion. This volume contains a fantastic collection of classic accounts of the area together with a number of poems dedicated to the park by various authors, including John Burroughs, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. Highly recommended for those with an interest in the world's most famous national park and a perfect gift for nature lovers and explorers. Contents include: “Thirty-Seven Days of Peril by Truman Everts”, “The Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling”, “Yellowstone Park by Charles J. Gillis”, “Yellowstone National Park by John Lawson Stoddard”, “The Yellowstone National Park by John Muir”, “In the Yellowstone Park by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden”, “Wilderness Reserves; The Yellowstone Park by Theodore Roosevelt”, “Camping with President Roosevelt by John Burroughs”, “Maw's Vacation by Emerson Hough”, “Trees in Yellowstone Forest, A Poem by Florence Riley Radcliffe”, etc. A Thousand Fields is publishing this brand new collection of classic accounts and poetry complete with an introductory article from “Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 28” (1911).

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• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 11 novembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528792943
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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WITHIN THE WALLS OF YELLOWSTONE
CLASSIC ACCOUNTS AND POETRY OF THE WORLD'S FIRST NATIONAL PARK
By
VARIOUS





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Contents
YELLOWSTONE N ATIONAL PARK
PART I
CLASSIC ACCOUNTS
THIRTY-SEVEN D AYS OF PERIL
By T ruman Everts
THE YELLOWSTONE
By Rud yard Kipling
YELL OWSTONE PARK
By Charl es J. Gillis
YELLOWSTONE N ATIONAL PARK
By John Law son Stoddard
THE YELLOWSTONE N ATIONAL PARK
By John Muir
IN THE YELL OWSTONE PARK
By Ferdinand Vand eveer Hayden
WILDERNESS RESERVES; THE YELL OWSTONE PARK
By Theodo re Roosevelt
CAMPING WITH PRESIDE NT ROOSEVELT
By Jo hn Burroughs
MA W'S VACATION
By E merson Hough
PART II
POETRY
TREES IN YELLOW STONE FOREST
A Poem by Florence Ril ey Radcliffe
CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE
A Poem by Bertye Yo ung Williams
THE EAGLE RIDE; OR, SEE FIRST THY NATIVE LAND
A Poem by William St eward Gordon
YELLOWSTONE PARK; THE SEC OND PARADISE
A Poem by William St eward Gordon
IN THE YELLOWSTONE
A Poem by Ha rriet Monroe


Illustrations
Lone Star Geyser
The Grotto, G eyser's Cone
Entrance to the Park
The Watch ful Sentinel
The Mammoth S prings Hotel
Hall of the Mammoth Springs Hotel & The Photogra pher's House
Mammoth Hot Springs
Fort Yellowstone
A Forest in the Park
Fir e-Hole River
Mountain Sheep & Yel lowstone Elk
Buffaloes in the Snow
Gathering B uffalo Bones
A Yell owstone Road
Liberty Cap
A Mound of the Hot Spr ing Terraces
Min erva Terrace
Jup iter Terrace
"Vitalit y and Death"
"Sepulchres of Vanished Splendor" & Ma n and Nature
The Pu lpit Terrace
A C amping-Party
A Coaching-Part y & No. 13½
Hotel at Yell owstone Lake
The Golden Gate
The Golden Gate, Loo king Outward
The Plateau
E lectric Peak
The Gl ass Mountain
An Indian Chief & A Trapper
The Norris Basin
A Pla ce of Danger
A Cam ping-Station
A Baby Geyser
The B lack Growler
Larry & Larry's L unch-Station
The B iscuit Basin
A Geyser Pool
"A Cloud-Burs t of Jewels"
The O blong Geyser
The Giant Geyser
The Castle Geyser & On "Its F linty Sides"
The Castle G eyser's Cone
The Castle and the Beehi ve in Action
The Crater of Old Faithful
Castle and Old Fait hful Geysers
Old Faithf ul in Action
Hell's Half Acre & The Excels ior, in 1888
Evening in the Upper Basin
The Morning-Glory Pool & Pr ismatic Lake
The Road Near the Golden Gate
The Emerald Pool
S unlight Lake
The Devil' s Punch-Bowl
The Mammo th Paint Pot
The Road By Gibbon River
"Grotesque Images in Clay" & On the Contin ental Divide
The "Silver Thread Connecting Two Oceans"
The Three Tetons
Lake Yellowstone, fro m a Distance
Rustic Falls, Yell owstone Park
The Solitary Steamboat & On Lake Yellowstone
The Sl eeping Giant
Alo ng the Shore
G reat Fishing
Larry, as Fisher man and Cook
A False Alarm
H ayden Valley
Approaching th e Mud Geyser
A Stranger in the Yellowstone
A Na tural Bridge
A Petr ified Forest
The Pa rk in Winter
The Expedition of 1887 & F. J. Haynes
The Cañon fro m a Distance
Yellowstone River abo ve the Falls
The Great Falls of the Yellowstone
Upper Falls of the Yellowstone & The Cañon from Br ink of Falls
The Cañon from Grand Point
Down the Cañon from Inspi ration Point
Below the Upper Falls
Miles of Co lored Cliffs
Temples Sculptured by the Deity
The Cañon from Artist Point
Minerva Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yell owstone Park
Great Falls and Grand Cañon, Yell owstone Park
Looking South from the Summit of Mt. Washburn, Yell owstone Park
The Upper Yellowstone Falls, from a Painting by Thomas Moran
Antelope in the Streets of Gardiner
Blacktail Deer on P arade-Ground
Elk in Snow
Bears and Tourists
Grizzly B ear and Cook
The Bear and the Chambermaid
The President with Mr. Burroughs and Secretary Loeb Just Before Enter ing the Park
Fort Yellowstone
The Yellowstone Rive r and Canyon
Mr. Burroughs's Favo rite Pastime
Sunrise in Yell owstone Park
“Maw”
“So Maw, dear, old, happy, innocent Maw, knelt down with her hatpi n and wrote”
“—and The Queen of Sheba had nothing on Cynthy.”
“If the geysers could be used for laundries, that would be somethin g like.”—Maw
"Artists' Impres sion of Maw"


YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
An American national reservation, situated mainly in N.W. Wyoming, U.S.A., dedicated by the United States government as "a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." It is nearly a rectangle in shape, with a length, from N. to S., of 62 m., a width of 54 m. and an area of approximately 3350 sq. m. It extends into Montana, on the N., about 2¼ m. and into Montana and Idaho, on the W., 2 m. Except at its main entrance, through the valley of the Yellowstone on the N., the park is entirely surrounded by national forests: the Gallatin and Absaroka national forests, on the N.; the Shoshone and the Beartooth, on the E.; the Teton, on the S.; and the Targhee, the Madison and the Gallati n, on the W.
The central portion, comprising an area of about 2000 sq. m., is an undulating volcanic plateau with a mean elevation above the sea of about 8000 ft. Along the entire E. border stretches the Absaroka range, with peaks exceeding 11,000 ft. (Index Peak, 11,740 ft.) in height. On the N. is the Snowy range with its snow-capped peaks. W. of the Snowy the Gallatin range extends S. for 20 m. along the W. border. Electric Peak, in the N.W. corner of the park, rises to a height of 11,155 ft. Near the S. end of the park are the Red Mountains, which culminate in Mt. Sheridan (10,385 ft.) and afford a magnificent view of the whole region; and farther S. the N. spur of the lofty Tetons juts across th e S. border.
In the production of these mountains and plateau there was first, at the close of the Cretaceous period, an upheaval of the earth's substance to form a mountain rim and a depressed basin. Subsequently, in the Tertiary period, there were two enormous outpourings of volcanic material—first andesitic lava, and later, after a long interval of quiet, rhyolitic—which nearly half filled the basin, converted it into a plateau and broke up the mountain rim. Two centres of volcanic activity were Mt. Sheridan, in the S., and Mt. Washburn, in the N. The volcanoes have long been extinct, but the diminished energy now causes hot springs and geysers in all parts of the plateau, about 100 in number. More than half, including the largest and finest, are in the upper and the lower Geyser basins, near the bead of the Madison, here known as the Firehole, river. Several others are farther N. in the Norris basin upon Gibbon river, a branch of the Madison, and others are farther S. in the Sho shone basin.
Excelsior, the largest geyser, with a crater about 300 ft. long and 200 ft. wide, has not been active since 1890, but for several years after its discovery it threw up at intervals a huge mass of water to a height of 200–250 ft. Old Faithful, at regular intervals of 65–70 minutes, throws up a column of hot water 2 ft. in diameter to a height of 125–150 ft., and the eruption lasts 4–4½ minutes. The Giant, at intervals of 2 to 4 days or more, throws up a column to a height of 250 ft. for 90 minutes. The Beehive (so called from the shape of its cone), the Grand and the Lone Star throw up columns to a height of 200 ft. but at irregular intervals. In the Norris basin are the Black Growler and the Hurricane, which consist of small apertures through which steam rushes with such tremendous force that it may be heard for miles. The hot springs are widely distributed over the plateau and number from 3000 to 4000. The water of most of the springs and geysers holds silica in solution in considerable quantities, so that as it cools and evaporates it deposits a dazzling white sinter which has covered many square miles of the valleys and contrasts strongly with the dark green of the surround mg forests. The springs, geysers and steam vents are scattered over it in the most irregular fashion. The silicious matter has also built up around the springs and geysers cones or mounds of considerable size and great beauty of form. The water of many of the springs contains sulphur, iron, alum and other materials in solution, which in places stain the pure white sinter with bright bands of colour. The tints and hues of some of the pools are of matchless