The Boone and Crockett Club 



In February, 1891, Captain Geo. S. Anderson, 

 a member of the Club, came to the Park and re- 

 lieved Captain Boutelle. Captain Anderson, while 

 wholly new to the work, was a most able officer, 

 and in Ed. Wilson, one of the scouts in the Park, 

 he found a single, able assistant. This man was 

 devoted to his work and succeeded in arresting 

 a number of violators of the rules; but in the 

 summer of 1891 he disappeared, and his place 

 was taken by Felix Burgess. 



Captain Anderson's treatment of the Park was 

 most judicious. Where another officer might have 

 roughly expelled a man from the Park for writing 

 his name or scratching his initials on the beautiful 

 geyser formation, Captain Anderson had the man 

 brought back to the place, and supplied with soap 

 and scrubbing brush or some tool, and obliged him 

 to erase the writing. His ingenious punishments 

 greatly impressed the visiting public, and a whole* 

 some respect for law began to< be felt. 



At this time the Park held a considerable herd 

 of wild buffalo. The heads and hides of buffalo 

 had now become so scarce that they were very 

 valuable, and in the minds of taxidermists and 

 hunters seemed beyond price. For some time the 

 killing of buffalo near and in the Yellowstone Park 

 went on without being suspected; but in 1894 the 



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