— Copyright by W. S. Berry. 

 Yellowstone Park Is a Paradise for Wild Life. 



From Inspiration Point, looking a thousand feet almost vertically down upon the 

 foaming Yellowstone River and southward three miles to the Great Falls, the 

 observer sees before him the most glorious kaleidoscope of color he will ever see 

 in nature. The whole is streaked and spotted and stratified in every shade from 

 the deepest orange to the faintest lemon, from the deepest crimson through all the 

 brick shades to the softest pink, from black through all the grays and pearls to 

 glistening white. The greens are furnished by the dark pines above and the foam- 

 ing green of the plunging river below. The blues, ever changing, are found in the 

 dome of the sky overhead. This is the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. 



The first view of the geyser basin affords a sensation never to be forgotten. 

 There are more than forty geysers accessible in the three large basins on the west 

 side. Some spout every few seconds, some every few minutes, others at intervals 

 of hours or days, a few at irregular intervals of weeks. The eruptions vary from 

 several feet to two hundred and fifty feet. But the whole region bubbles and hisses 

 and steams. 



Greatest Animal Refuge. 



Yellowstone Park is by far the largest and most successful wild-animal preserve 

 in the world. Since it was established in 1872, hunting has been strictly prohibited, 

 and elk, deer of several kinds, bear, antelope, bison, moose, and bighorn mountain 

 sheep roam the plains and mountains in large numbers. Thirty thousand elk, for 

 instance, live in the park. These animals have long ceased to fear man and with 

 the exception of the grizzly and the mountain sheep, make little effort to get out 

 of vision of the passer-by. 



