Show MAKING OF THE yellowstone how its history Is written in its plateaus mountains petrified r trees and lava to comprehend what we lne in the yellow stone ve roust begin with ts making the entire region Is of vol canic origin the mountains around A it on both sides and the mount nina mathin it are products or remainders of great volcanoes of the far and the great plateaus from which spring its geysers and hot springs and through whose forests now roam so anny wild animals are composed of the ash and disintegrated lavae which were once ejected from these volcanoes of the plains ire now all deep with i rut such evidences of alie past as atu black volcanic glass of the obsidian 1 and the fantastic whorled lava rod s 0 mount are plain to the least instructed eye one particularly fascinating glimpse of Yellow stones tempestuous past is afforded in the petrified forest of the specimen neighborhood where many levels of upright petrified trunks may be found alternating like the lay ers in a cake with levels ot lava which plainly shows that after the first forest grew on the slope and was engulfed by a fresh run of lava enough time elapsed for second f A u jaa VAS VA S forest to crow upon that level and that this in turn was engulfed with new lava to make the level for another forest and so on there Is a cliff 2 feet ghigli composed wholly of these alternate levels of engulfed forests aad the lavas which engulfed them in magnificent contrast ath the volcanic plateau and its border of volcanic mountains there rises from the plains 8 miles south of alie park one of atie most abrupt and stupendous outcrop pings of granite in the western hemisphere from the western shore of jackson lake the teton mountains lift their peaks feet in apparent perpendicular many glaciers rest upon their shoulders their climax Is the grand teton choso whoso altitude Is feet thus does the melloh stone run the scenic gamut once jacksons 1 as this region Is still popularly called was the refuge for the hunted desperado of mountain plain and city in the recesses of these granite monsters he was safe from pursuit the elk herds of the plains provided him food but that picturesque period of american life has passed with ahr warring indians who also here found temporary safe retreat cut flowers will leep fresh many days it their stems be inserted la I 1 mixture of charcoal and bond ass u 1 |