[2]A frontiersman’s characterization of the climate in the Park. The statement is usually attributed to James Stuart.
[3]John E. Rees, Idaho Chronology, Nomenclature, Bibliography (Portland, Oregon: Ivey Press, 1917), p. 61.
[4]Teton and Snowy ranges, although partly integrated with Yellowstone, actually lie beyond the south and north borders respectively.
[5]The plateaus are Buffalo, Mirror, Two Ocean, Pitchstone, Madison, and Central. The ranges are Gallatin, Washburn, and Absaroka. The ridges include the Big Game, Chicken, Speciman, and Crowfoot. The Red Mountains form a unit by themselves in the south-central area.
[6]These are Electric, Pollux, Atkins, and Eagle peaks, and Schurz and Humphreys mountains.
[7]Warm River originates west of the Park, but Firehole is the best example of a really warm river. It does not freeze over in temperatures 50° below zero. There are literally thousands of hot springs in Yellowstone. Dr. A. C. Peale estimated three thousand, while Dr. Arnold Hague said the number probably exceeded twenty-five hundred.
[8]Reference to this stream is made again in relation to the “Overland Astorians” in [Chapter II]. See also, Dee Linford’s “Wyoming Stream Names,” Annals of Wyoming, XV, 2 (April, 1943), 165-70.
[9]These sources are the Firehole and Gibbon, respectively.
[10]This is the lowest temperature ever recorded on an official United States Weather Bureau thermometer in Continental United States.