The Story of Man In Yellowstone

by Merrill D. Beal

[292]Lewis R. Freeman, Down the Yellowstone (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922), p. 57.

[293]P. W. Norris, Annual Report 1880, p. 7.

[294]R. Kipling, American Notes, p. 174. Also see T. A. Jagger’s article, “Death Gulch, A Natural Bear Trap,” Popular Science, LIV (February, 1899), 5-6.

[295]Jack Ellis Haynes states that A. F. Norris, C. M. Stephens, and J. Davis spent the winter of 1879-80 in the headquarters building at Mammoth.

[296]William Ludlow, Report to the War Department 1875, pp. 36-7. Mr. Ludlow made a reconnaissance from Carrol, Montana to Yellowstone Park and returned.

[297]Yellowstone Scrap Book, II, pp. 37, 56.

[298]Report of the Secretary of the Interior 1884, II (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1885), p. 565.

[299]Ibid., 1889, III, p. 133.

[300]Some of these territorial officials, known in local parlance as “rabbit catchers,” formed an alliance with the assistant superintendent. By this means the latter shared, as informers, the fines levied by themselves. H. M. Chittenden, op. cit., p. 113.

[301]Ibid., p. 134. See also Report for 1906, p. 522 and The Independent, Butte, Montana, Nov., 1895.