History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . ette, Benjamin C. Stickney, jr, Walter Trumbull, and Jacob Smith. Theyproceeded to the geyser basins and Yellowstone lake, making an extendedreport of their explorations. The highest mountain in that region was namedafter the stirvevor-general, Washburne. U. S. ^en. Ex. Dor., 51, 41st cong.,.3d sess.; Owrland Monthly, vi. 4.31-7, 489-96; MUsoula Pioneer, March 9-30,1872. It was upon the report of this expedition to the sec. of war, andthrough the labors of the Montana delegate, Clagge:t, that the Yellowstone 770 MILITARY AND INDIAN AFFAIRS.

History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . ette, Benjamin C. Stickney, jr, Walter Trumbull, and Jacob Smith. Theyproceeded to the geyser basins and Yellowstone lake, making an extendedreport of their explorations. The highest mountain in that region was namedafter the stirvevor-general, Washburne. U. S. ^en. Ex. Dor., 51, 41st cong.,.3d sess.; Owrland Monthly, vi. 4.31-7, 489-96; MUsoula Pioneer, March 9-30,1872. It was upon the report of this expedition to the sec. of war, andthrough the labors of the Montana delegate, Clagge:t, that the Yellowstone 770 MILITARY AND INDIAN AFFAIRS. Stock Photo
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History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . ette, Benjamin C. Stickney, jr, Walter Trumbull, and Jacob Smith. Theyproceeded to the geyser basins and Yellowstone lake, making an extendedreport of their explorations. The highest mountain in that region was namedafter the stirvevor-general, Washburne. U. S. ^en. Ex. Dor., 51, 41st cong., .3d sess.; Owrland Monthly, vi. 4.31-7, 489-96; MUsoula Pioneer, March 9-30, 1872. It was upon the report of this expedition to the sec. of war, andthrough the labors of the Montana delegate, Clagge:t, that the Yellowstone 770 MILITARY AND INDIAN AFFAIRS. successful, the expedition proceeding through theYellowstone national park to Fort Ellis/ national park was reserved for a pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoy-ment of the people. U. S. H. Ex. Doc, 326, p. 162, 41st cong., 3d seas.;Comj. Glohe, 1871-2, app. 694; Annual lirpt Supt iVai. Park, 1881, 74-5;Haythu, Great Wtst, 36-8. Another government party in 1872 designedvisiting the Yellowstone park, namely, the peace commissioners to the Sioux, . Yellowstone National Park. headed by Gen. Cowan. They were prevented by these Indians. No, so theU. S. geol. surveying exped., under Hayden, which approached from the westby the Snake river canon through the Teton range, finding immense snow-drifts and glaciers in July, and a lake at an altitude of 10, 200 feet, whichwas frozen 15 feet deep. N. Y. Herald, in Helena Rochf Mountain Gazette, Sept. 29, 1872. Hayden penetrated to the geyser basin, which was describedin his report. Numerous visiting and exploring parties have traversed thepark since 1872, notably one which full in witii the Nez Perces, under Josephin 1877, by whom they suffered severely. A reconnaissance for a wagon-roadfrom Fort Washakie was made in 1881 by (iov. Hoyt and Col Julius VV.Mason, 3d cav., and a small escort. Trans Wyom. Acad. Sciences, 43-69. »Mess. Gov. Campbell, 1873, 10. Wijow. H. Jour., 1873, 27. Illiigerao, Knocking Round t/ie Rockies, 181. It is the int