The Boone and Crockett Club 



scout Burgess detected a hunter in the act of 

 butchering a number that he had just killed in the 

 Astringent and Pelican Creek districts. The 

 poacher, Howell, was engaged in skinning a cow 

 and was surrounded by the bodies of seven freshly 

 killed buffalo, of which six were cows and one a 

 yearling calf. Howell was arrested, held for some 

 time in confinement and then set free, with orders 

 to leave the Park and not return. There was still 

 no law under which he could be punished. 



This crime was undoubtedly one of the best 

 things that ever happened for the Park. It was 

 thoroughly exploited in Forest and Stream, and 

 afterward in other periodicals, and created an 

 interest throughout the country, which brought 

 about the passage of the Park Protection Act, 

 signed by President Cleveland, May 7, 1894. 

 This was the ultimate reward of a number of men 

 who, for a do'zen years, had been working for the 

 protection and betterment of the Yellowstone Park. 

 It may fairly be said that since then that great 

 reservation has never been exposed to any special 

 dangers. 



The Yellowstone Park had been set aside under 

 peculiar conditions. The public represented by 

 those who urged the establishment of the Park 

 asked only that the territory might be withdrawn 



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