[350]Dwight L. Elmendorf, The Mentor, II (May 15, 1915), 13.
[351]Earl of Dunraven, The Great Divide (London, 1876), p. XI.
The Scottish Earl of Dunraven visited the Park in 1874. A peak and a pass commemorate his interest and service in informing Europeans about Yellowstone.
[352]The date of this communication was December 20, 1810.
[353]Colter’s first sheet is readily identifiable, and part of another sheet may be segregated with the use of imagination and understanding.
[354]Many writers have failed to identify Gap and Sage as the same creek. They also befuddle Wind and Shoshone rivers. There is no evidence that Colter ever heard the name of Bighorn River.
[355]The figure eight results from the fact that he went to the Yep-pe camp, left it, came back, and left it again at the appropriate angles.
[356]The curious errors of the map are explained in [Chapter II].
[357]Lewis evidently complained to Biddle about the variations in sheets because Clark stated in a letter to Biddle that these sheets were all of the same scale. See Stallo Vinton, John Colter, p. 47.
[358]This claim will be developed subsequently.