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certain predatory beasts, for more than thirty years, and the creatures par 

 ticularly the bears, the deer, and the buffaloes have become so tame that they 

 can be seen at any time. The animals, the birds, and the fish of the park 

 have been described already in detail in special chapters devoted to them. 



One peculiarly fascinating glimpse of Yellowstone's tempestuous past is 

 afforded in the petrified forest of the Specimen Ridge country, where many 

 levels of upright petrified trunks may be found alternating, like the layers 

 of a cake, with the levels of volcanic mud flows. That plainly shows that 

 after the first forest grew on the volcano's slope and was engulfed by a fresh 

 run of mud enough time elapsed for a second forest to grow upon that 

 level, and that this in turn was engulfed with a new mud flow to make the 

 level for another forest, and so on. There is one cliff two thousand feet high 

 composed wholly of these alternate levels of forests and the mud flows which 

 engulfed them. 



The Yellowstone travel season is June, July, August, and September. 

 The park is practically snow-bound during the rest of the year. There are 

 five gateways to the Yellowstone for the Sagebrusher arriving in his own 

 motor: the Gardiner Gateway on the north; the West Yellowstone and 

 Gallatin gateways from which the motorist enters on the west boundary; 

 the Jackson Hole Gateway reached from Lander or Rock Springs, Wyoming, 

 or from Victor, Idaho; and the Cody Gateway through which one enters the 

 park at Sylvan Pass after passing the remarkable Shoshone Canyon and 

 Lake and the other wonders of the Buffalo Bill country. Several transcon 

 tinental railroad lines serve the Yellowstone: the Union Pacific via West 

 Yellowstone, the Northern Pacific via Gardiner and Gallatin gateways, 

 the Milwaukee via Gallatin Gateway, the Burlington via the Cody or eastern 

 entrance, and the Chicago & Northwestern Railway via Lander and the 

 Jackson Hole Gateway on the south. Railroad passengers travel through 

 the park in motor stages, requiring five days to make the circuit. They have 

 the choice of accommodations at the Yellowstone lodges, with wooden cabins 

 for sleeping quarters, or at the modern hotels, the hotels being slightly more 

 expensive than the lodges. In either case, the visitor's itinerary is worked 

 out by the railroads or the transportation company and his reservations are 

 made without bother on his part. 



GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK 



In magnificent contrast to the volcanic Yellowstone and its border of 

 volcanic mountains, there rises to the south one of the most abrupt and stu 

 pendous outcroppings of granite in the Western Hemisphere, the Tetons. 

 From the western shore of Jackson Lake the Teton Mountains lift their 

 spired peaks 7,000 feet in apparent perpendicular. The master of them all is 

 the Grand Teton, whose altitude is 13,747 feet. Many glaciers rest upon 

 their slopes. At their feet nestles Jackson Hole, a region rich in romance, 

 once the favorite hiding place of the robber and bad man, but now a center 

 for the "dude wrangling" industry. The Grand Teton National Park was 

 established February 26, 1929. 



