PHOTOGRAPHS
OF THE
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
AND
Views in Montana and Wyoming Territories.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
United States Geological Survey of the Territories.
F V Hayden, United States Geologist-in-charge
W. H. JACKSON, PHOTOGRAPHER.
Washington:
Government Printing Office
1873.
William H. Jackson and an assistant photographing in high places—Tetons.
Camp of U. S. Geological Survey, Ogden, Utah. The camp is located on one of the remarkable lake-terraces which form an interesting feature of the scenery on the Salt Lake Basin. The Wasatch Mountains, in the background, are about five thousand feet above the camp, and nine thousand five hundred and thirty feet above sea level.
Meeting of the U. S. Geological Survey in the Lower Firehole Basin. The two divisions of the Survey met at this locality on the same day, July 17, 1872, starting from this point several hundred miles distant from each other. The locality is near the source of the Madison River, and is within the limits of the National Park, Latitude 44° 34′6″: Longitude 110° 55′15″.