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The Sphinx, Elevation 10,840 Feet. 



The Yellowstone National Park has unrivalled claim to the title of the Wonder- 

 land of America. In fact, at no place on the globe, are to be found, so closely grouped, 

 so many natural phenomena. It is the home of the unique and unusual in nature, and 

 its attractions are known all over the civilized world, from every country of which it 

 annually draws its large quota of visitors. During the year 1915, 51,895 persons toured 

 the park, and it is expected that this number will rapidly increase during the next 

 few years. 



The tour of the Yellowstone National Park may be made in five and one-half 

 days, and yet, so many and so varied are the opportunities here to enjoy the wonders 

 which abound on every hand, that a visitor may spend months within the park 

 confines and know not tlie feeling of time heaviness. The route of tourist travel 

 through the park is ideally arranged to produce a constantly changing view of world 

 wonders, with each new scene lifting the emotions to a higher point and giving a more 

 glorious conception of nature's marvelous work. 



First, at Mammoth, with its hundreds of mineral springs, constantly building and 

 rebuilding myriad formations, and its wierd spectral rocks and subterranean caverns; 

 another day, and the visitor is in the heart of the geyser region, where, each on its 

 own regular schedule, a hundred spouting springs send forth their charge of boiling 

 water, playing for a minute or an hour, as the case may be, sending their streams up- 

 ward in some instances to heights of hundreds of feet, and then dropping back into 

 the form of a clear pool which gives no indication of the mighty forces working be- 

 neath its surface; out of the geyser region, the tourist views and sails across beautiful 

 Lake Yellowstone, a magnificent body of cool, clear crystal water, over 7,000 feet above 

 the level of the sea, a scene which makes one feel that the turbulent, volcanic activity 

 he witnessed the day before can scarcely be more than a dream so striking is the 

 contrast; another day and he comes upon the wonder of wonders — the falls and grand 



