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ular staging. At frequent intervals rare springs 

 and drinking places are marked — in fact, every 

 spot of interest is marked, and the guideboards 

 and distance marks keep you always on the right 

 road. Thousands of strangers from the nearby 

 states go through in wagons each year, camping 

 on the way; and they need no guides, for the Park 

 is thoroughly charted and marked. 



The worst trouble with camping is the bears, 

 for some one must always be left in camp. In 

 fact, if they are protected a few years longer, they 

 will just about take the Park. Already they are 

 so numerous and so fearless that they are a 

 nuisance to camping parties. 



As we approach the Canon Hotel the scenery 

 becomes more rugged, wilder. The river becomes 

 more turbulent with a swifter fall. 



We cross Cascade Creek, a tributary of the 

 Yellowstone, where Colonel Norris found carved 

 in a tree some nearly defaced initials and the 

 date 1819, supposedly made by some white 

 trapper, nearly a hundred years ago, who had left 

 no other record of his presence here. 



