Show A Trip to the Yellowstone Park We left Logan on July 3rd at 5 o’clock in the afternoon The day had been excessively hot and the cool sluidows of the canyon were very refreshing The next morning was the glrri-011Fourth which we celebrated by waking the echoes and 'making the canyon walls resound with giant firecrackers The evening' was spent in a quiet way on the shores of Bear Lake The next stage of our journey was through towns and past scattered groups of houses farms and lonely ranches till we reached the grand Teton Mountains The climb up Teton Pass afforded fine scen- snow-cover- s Clear streams dense pines and steep canyon walls all combined to nroduce an ideal picture At the summit of this pass we reached an elevation of eight thousand four hundred feet and there lying before us was Jackson’s Hole the Mecca of large game hunters Through the middle of the valley the Snake River flowed winding in and out justifying its name by its numerous curves The banks were green and the whole valley seemed to be sparkling with life For twenty miles the next d'v we rode through country that seemed lonely and wild The old peaks of the Teton Range were wrapped in fleecy mantles of mist ery and except at rare intervals their cliffs rugged and were hidden from our eves Following these peaks till we reached the loftiest and most magnificent of all the “Grand Teton” we arrived at Jenny’s Lake which lay at its foot and was partly fed by streams from its small glaciers We were now within twenty-fiv- e miles of the National Park and we hurrried eagerly forward At the boundary line we were met by a soldier who registered our names sealed our guns and let us pass on The lives of all animals in the Park are carefully guarded and a heavy fine is imposed for firing a gun In two days we were at the “Thumb” of Yellowstone Lake Here the deer were so tame that they would come almost within reach of our hands This is one of the ‘most beautiful bodies of water to be found in the Rocky Mountains In all this wonderland with its marvellous gevsers boiling springs and prismatic pools nothing so completely ' defies description as the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone Here the river falls one hundred forty feet in the first cataract and three hundred sixty feet in the second which is less than half a mile below Our point of observation wras over fifteen hundred feet above the bed of the river and ' mm ed |