[149]Congressional Globe, Forty-second Congress, Second Session, 1871-72, Part I, p. 520.
[150]Ibid., p. 697.
[151]W. T. Jackson, op. cit., p. 203.
[152]Ibid., pp. 204-5.
[153]Louis C. Crampton, op. cit., p. 31.
[154]Senator George G. Vest, a strong friend of Yellowstone, once referred to Mr. Dawes as the father of the Park, “for he drew the law of designation.” If not the actual scribe, he was certainly the advocate of the principles involved. See L. C. Crampton, op. cit., p. 32.
[155]John Muir, The Atlantic Monthly, LXXXI (April, 1898), 509.
Dr. F. V. Hayden’s tribute to Congress is equal to John Muir’s. Hayden said, “That our legislators, at a time when public opinion is so strong against appropriating the public domain for any purpose, however laudable, should reserve for the benefit and instruction of the people a tract of 3,575 square miles, is an act that should cause universal satisfaction through the land. This noble deed may be regarded as a tribute from our legislators to science, and the gratitude of the nation, and of men of science in all parts of the world, is due them for this munificent donation.” See “The Yellowstone National Park,” American Journal, III (April, 1872), 295-96.
[156]Congressional Globe, p. 697.
[157]George Catlin, North American Indians (Philadelphia: 1913), II, 290.