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contained trout and into which they might well be 

 introduced an investigation arranged for at the 

 request of Captain F. A. Boutelle, U.S.A., the local 

 commandant. On this expedition I had the in- 

 valuable assistance of Gilbert and, as a volunteer, 

 of Spangler, then librarian of Indiana University. 

 During the course of a month we made a fairly 

 complete ichthyological survey of the whole park, 

 mapping and photographing the streams and listing 

 their fishes. 



It was a proud day when I set out from Mammoth 

 Hot Springs at the head of a train of sixteen Indian 

 ponies, locally known as "cayuses" and all carefully in the 

 chosen, as we had stipulated with their owners that Tellow - 

 the first one to buck should be shot. Accompany- 

 ing us were three vigorous guides led by the well- 

 known Elwood Hofer, and an admirable cook. Our 

 course lay first along the left bank of the Yellow- 

 stone to the Great Falls and the Lake, thence across 

 to Heart and Shoshone lakes and the headwaters 

 of the Lewis Fork of the Snake, next down the 

 Firehole with its four amazing geyser basins to the 

 Gibbon, then over to the Gardiner, and from there 

 back to Mammoth Hot Springs. Progress was often 

 obstructed by complicated tangles of "down timber," 

 the distressing aftermath of old fires followed by 

 winter storms, but at night we camped in grassy 

 glades with which the forests are interspersed. 



Of all the noble scenery included in our great A painted 

 country, that of Yellowstone Park seems to me the chasm 

 finest. With the most beautiful of our mountain 

 waterfalls set in a majestic painted gorge, a multitude 

 of charming lakes both large and small, dark forests 

 and symmetrical peaks, it is also everywhere per- 



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