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FOREST AND STREAM 
Death of General Anderson 
His Work Largely Responsible for the Yellowstone Park of To-day 
By G. B. G. 
Brigadier General George S. Anderson, U. S. 
A., retired, died on Sunday, March 7, at the 
University Club, New York, where he had lived 
*ince his retirement in 1912. 
Gen. Anderson was born in Bernardsville, New 
Jersey, September 30, 1849- He received his 
appointment to the Military Academy from New 
Jersey in 1867 and graduated in 1871. He was 
assigned as Second Lieutenant, to the Sixth 
Cavalry, and was sent on frontier duty to Ft. 
Hays, Kansas, and during the next twenty years 
The late Gen. Geo. S. Anderson. 
saw service on the plains and did much Indian 
fighting. 
In 1877 he was detailed as Assistant Professor 
of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at 
West Point, but in 1881 was ordered back to 
Arizona, and from there to Colorado. He re¬ 
ceived his promotion to a captaincy in 1885. 
In 1891 he became superintendent of the 
Yellowstone National Park, and accomplished 
much for its protection. Under his superin¬ 
tendency poaching in the Park became a hard¬ 
ship and numbers of violators of the regulations 
were captured, among them the famous Howell 
—taken in a blinding snow storm as he was 
skinning one of half a dozen buffalo that lay 
about him. 
At the opening of the Spanish War, Gen. An¬ 
derson was offered an appointment as Inspector- 
General of Volunteers, with the rank of Major, 
but declined it, preferring to remain with his 
old regiment, which, however, did not reach the 
front. He became Major in 1899, and a little 
later was sent to the Philippines as Colonel of 
the Thirtieth United States Volunteers. His 
men were enlisted largely from Missouri, Ken¬ 
tucky, and Tennessee, and were giants in stature 
and marvels of endurance, and their appearance 
and work in the field struck terror to the hearts 
of the Filipinos, whom they so untiringly pursued. 
Gen. Anderson was made Lieutenant-Colonel 
in 1901, and Colonel in 1903. In 1906 he had 
command of the First Cavalry and in 1908 went 
to the Ninth Cavalry. In 1906 he be¬ 
came a member of the General Staff, and served 
at Governor’s Island, New York, as Chief of 
Staff of the Eastern Division until 1911, when 
in March he was appointed Brigadier-General. 
He was in command of the Department of Vis- 
ayas in the Philippines when his application for 
retirement was granted in 1912, after 45 years 
of service. 
Gen. Anderson was a splendid soldier and a 
delightful man. He did not know fear, was 
quick to adapt himself to any situation that arose, 
and possessed enormous strength and tremendous 
vitality. He had a great enthusiasm for the 
Yellowstone Park, worked untiringly for its pro¬ 
tection and improvement, and made what is prob¬ 
ably the best collection of Yellowstone Park 
literature that is in existence. 
Besides the work that he did in administering 
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in brook or river? Go out after them old 
man and GET YOURS. 
Let the sing of the reel and the taste of 
“good grub” and the smell of the woods 
drive the cobwebs out of your brain and the 
weariness out of your system. 
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the Park—in keeping out evildoers and making 
protection popular among the neighboring in¬ 
habitants—Gen. Anderson kept the friends of 
the Park in the east advised of the dangers that 
threatened it, and thus enabled them to secure 
in Washington sympathy that was helpful to the 
reservation. He was one of that very small 
group—now grown still smaller— who during 
several strenuous years carried on a determined 
fight to protect the Yellowstone Park from be¬ 
ing exploited by people whose only wish was to 
make money out of it. 
An unusual incident that happened to him dur¬ 
ing his command in the Park suggests one phase 
of the man’s character. 
He was being driven from the Falls Hotel 
toward the Hayden Valley when unexpectedly 
the ambulance came upon an old black bear with 
two cubs, close to the road. The cubs hastily 
scrambled up a small tree, and the mother dis¬ 
appeared in the bushes. Gen. Anderson stopped 
the ambulance, and, while the driver tied up the 
mules, felt about in the bottom of the vehicle 
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