66 THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 
seem to have been satisfied with the conclusion reached by Colonel 
Wm. F. Raynolds, who, attempting to reach this region from the _ 
head waters of Wind River without success, decided that such a 
route was wholly impracticable. Since 1859, the date of Ray- 
nolds’ expedition, all explorers have taken it for granted that the 
‘sources of Wind River can only be reached from the head waters 
of Yellowstone River, by making a détour so as to cross the Wind 
River mountains through Union pass. Impressed with this idea, 
entrance has heretofore been made from the northward by way of 
forts Ellis and Bozeman in Montana, with the one exception of a 
portion of Dr. Hayden’s command of last year, which entered by 
ascending the valley of Snake River, under the guidance of Mr. 
James Stevenson. It was natural, therefore, that much interest 
should attach to the results attained by an expedition, which took 
the field during the past summer, with the expressed intention of 
solving as much as possible of the mystery overhanging the struct- 
ure of the unexplored territory adjacent to the park on the south 
and east.* The northwestern Wyoming expedition, under the 
command of Capt. W. A. Jones, Chief Engineer of the Department 
of the Platte, after an extended tour of exploration among the 
complicated mountain ridges of the Wind River drainage, entered | 
the park by a new route. Ascending one of the forks of the — 
Stinking Water to its source in the high and rugged volcanic wall 
* The interesting geological results of this expedition are enumerated in an article by i 
the writer, on the Geology of Western Wyoming, in the Amer. Jour. of Sci., Dec., 1873. _ 
that the Stinking Water River, to which I now allude, is an important tributary of the 
ray Horn, and not the mien Water Creek so often mentioned by Hayden, which 
a tributary of Jefferson Fork of p Missouri. Stinking Water River is in Wyo- 
‘aiid, Stinking W alae Ordak tik Meat as. 
While upon this subject I would ok if some measures cannot be adopted to prevent 
this pes o confusion of names. _ Why would it not be wise to substitute, as far a8 
possible of those 
now in use? Certainly the majority of the Indian names are much eferable to their 
English translations g 
ttt the na ‘show the extent of this polynomial evil I have compiled the following 
tof the names of streams, which oceur more than once within a distance of thr 
Powder River 2, Jon ihe ore 2, Téton ma Snake River 2, Sa 5, Cot 
, ge Creek 5, ' aes 
tonwood 3, Muddy 5, Dry Creek 4, Clear Creek 2, Sour C ae “ Deep Creek 2, Spring 
Creek 3, Beaver Creek3, Elk Creek 3, Deer Creek 2, REA paie per Creek 2, Bitter 
iak eare eoa ra bl ater 2. Thus w ixty- ae 
