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Show jAciilLETo ; BE PARTOF PARK Old Time Resort of Bad Men of Every Class to Be Added to Yellowstone. LIVINGSTONE, Mont . Juno 4 A bandit stronghold may be added to the Yellowstone National rark The Jackson Jack-son Hole country once the resort of bad men of every class Is the strip which it Is proposed to attach to the reservation. For thirty years, Jackson's Hole has played an important part in lurid literature liter-ature as well as in sensational fact. Thousands of "wild west" stories have mentioned that bullet swept region, where criminals fled from posses and where a comparatively few men could hold a company of soldiers at bay Reprcsenfath e Mondcll, of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, is fostering a measure to add about 6ti.''"'i .i- .os of Wyoming public land south of the park to the Yellowstone Yellow-stone reservation. There are very few homesteaders on this land and it is be-lleved be-lleved that their claims can be adjusted adjust-ed without difficudty. The tract is as beautiful, it is said, as any part of the Yellowstone region and this is the leading reason for the desire to add It to the park. Lofty mountains, many of them covered with dense forests, rise from this land Great pfairies, which once were deserts, des-erts, stretch for miles. Hundreds of striking buttes whose crannies furnishes fur-nishes hiding places and fortifications for Indians, and robbers, and fugitives, dot the country- Grand Teton mountain and Mount I Moran are included in the proposed I addition, but Jackson's Hole Is perhaps !the best known pot. Again and again, !in pioneer days, Indians flashed into i this depression and disappeared But I mm learned the secrets of the hole land often they got there a few horse I jumps ahead of their pursuers. As late I as 1914. tbo rr:ips echoed to the clatter clat-ter of hoofs and the whine of bullets, (in July 29. of that year, two bandits Lheld up eighteen Yellowstone park i oachea and after robbing more than one hundred tourists, escaped to the hole. Soldiers searched and searched and found nothing. Now. Representative Mondell hopes to change the order of things. His plan provides that hotels be built whpre the Red men once pitched their tepees, that comfortable lodges be erected among the crannies of the bandits ban-dits and that the government shall see ' to It no tourist is held up not even by hotel men. oo |