Hunting in Many Lands 



the owners of prospect holes about Cooke 

 City would have long since secured segre- 

 gation. As the line runs, it is secured by the 

 impassable Absarokas — the summer home of 

 large herds of mountain sheep — and it in- 

 cludes not a foot of land of a dime's value 

 to mortal man. Both south and west lines 

 are protected by mountain heights, and they 

 exclude every foot of land of any value for 

 agriculture, or even for the grazing of do- 

 mestic cattle. 



The experiment was once made of winter- 

 ing a herd of cattle in the lowest part of 

 the Park — the Falls River meadows, in the 

 extreme southwest corner — and, I believe, not 

 a hoof survived. Their bones by the hundreds 

 now whiten the fair valley. 



Following the act of dedication, Mr. N. P. 

 Langford was on May lo, 1872, appointed 

 superintendent, without salary. He was di- 

 rected to "apply any money which may be 

 received from leases to carrying out the object 

 of the act." He never lived in the Park, 

 never drew a salary, and never, except by 

 reports and recommendations, did anything 

 for its protection. In his first report he sug- 

 gests that "wild game of all kinds be pro- 



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