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from settlement, and was satisfied with that. But 

 the people at large did not look forward to the 

 existence of the reservation without government 

 for a period of twenty-two years, nor did they 

 realize the changed conditions which would prevail 

 so soon as railroads reached the neighborhood of 

 the Park. So long as the Park was isolated and 

 to be reached only after five hundred miles of 

 horseback or stage ride, the region might get along 

 very well without law, but as soon as the Northern 

 Pacific R. R. brought to it a large public, that 

 public required to be governed. 



The Boone and Crockett Club after its organiza- 

 tion, acting through the personality of Geo'. G. 

 Vest, Arnold Hague, Wm. Hallett Phillips, W. A. 

 Wadsworth, Archibald Rogers, Theodore Roose- 

 velt and George Bird Grinnell, was finally success- 

 ful in carrying through the law of May 7, 1894, 

 and so saved the Park. 



Much more might be written about the history 

 of the Park. Further details will be found in 

 Colonel Anderson's paper on the Protection of the 

 Yellowstone National Park in "Hunting in Many 

 Lands," the second volume of the Boone and 

 Crockett Club's books, and in the files of Forest 

 and Stream which was the natural mouthpiece of 

 the club from 1882 to 1894. 



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