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THROUGH WONDERLAND . 
rod ; Prior Creek, near Huntley ; Mission Creek, twelve miles east of Liv¬ 
ingston; and Sixteen-Mile Creek, sixteen miles from Townsend, all of which 
are said by visitors to afford excellent sport. 
It must not, however, be supposed that the angler enjoys a monopoly of 
sport in this country of varied attractions; for grouse and ducks are plentiful, 
as are also, on the mountain ranges, deer, elk and antelope. 
Passing Springdale, where the traveler will observe hacks in readiness to 
convey visitors to Hunter’s Hot Springs, two and one-half miles distant, the 
train approaches, amid scenery increasing in grandeur, the little city of Liv¬ 
ingston. Whatever interest may, in the near future, attach to this place as a 
resort of the gentle brotherhood from all parts of the continent, it will cer¬ 
tainly fall short of that which will belong to it as the gateway of that world- 
renowned region, the 
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 
“ Situated,” to quote the distinguished geologist, Professor John Muir, of 
California, who recently visited it, “in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, on the 
broad, rugged summit of the continent, amid snow and ice, and dark, shaggy 
forests, where the great rivers take their rise, it surpasses in wakeful, exciting 
interest any other region yet discovered on the face of the globe.” While it 
contains the most beautiful and sublime of mountain, lake and forest scenery, its. 
fame rests, not upon that, but upon the extraordinary assemblage of the curious 
products of Nature’s caprice, and the infinitely wonderful manifestations of almost 
extinct forms of her energy that are found within its borders. Approached* 
by a branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad, extending southward from Liv¬ 
ingston to its northern boundary, and the only railroad within one hundred 
miles, this remarkable region has, by a judicious expenditure of public money 
and by admirable individual and corporate enterprise, been rendered so 
easy of exploration that the tourist may within the brief period of five days 
visit all its most interesting points. 
So majestically do the snow-capped mountains tower above the lesser hills 
that inclose the charming valley whose various windings the railroad follows, 
from Livingston to Cinnabar, that the traveler can scarcely believe that 
still more magnificent scenery lies beyond. And truly the cloud-piercing 
Emigrant’s Peak, with its famous mining gulch ; the yet loftier Electric 
Peak; the colossal Sphinx; and that most singular formation, the Devil’s Slide, 
form the most fitting introduction that the human mind can conceive to the 
wonders of the National Park. 
Conveyed by an excellently equipped Concord coach from the terminus of 
the railroad to the hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs, six miles distant, the tourist 
finds himself surrounded by all the conveniences of modern hotel life. 
And within full view of the hotel, from which they are distant but a few 
hundred yards, are the exquisitely filigreed and richly colored terraces formed by 
the Mammoth Hot Springs, not the least of the wonders of this famous region. 
