Identifier: haynesnewguidemo1922hayn (find matches)
Title: Haynes new guide and motorists' complete road log of Yellowstone National Park
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Haynes, Jack Ellis, 1884-1962
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Publisher: St. Paul : J.E. Haynes
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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arty was organized at Fort Yellowstone to visit thewinter ranges of the animals, to ascertain the number ofbuffaloes and photograph them. The party consisted ofCaptain Scott, Lieut. Forsyth, Scout Burgess, EobertBurns, Photographer Haynes, and three non-commissionedofficers. On Norwegian snowshoes, with packs of sleepingbags, provisions and camera, they proceeded directly toHayden Valley via Xorris and the Grand Canyon. Theyfound eighty-one buffaloes in the valley, seventy-three inone herd; and numerous groups of elk. After severaldays in Ilayden Valley the party went to YellowstoneLake. Captain Anderson, superintendent of the Park, hadinstructed Scout Burgess not to overlook the country eastof the lake, as a small herd of buffaloes usually winteredthere. The first day out from the lake they pitched campabout twelve miles up Pelican Creek. Emerson Hough, eminent writer, and Billy Hoferspent many days in the park at the same time—the twoparties met at the Canyon. 152 HAYNES NEW GUIDE
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THE FORERUNNER OF THE ANTOMOBILE STAGE The second day they discovered the cache^^ of apoacher, very much to their surprise. It consisted of acanvas tepee, sleeping bag, provisions and toboggan andsix buffalo heads suspended in a tree. A trace of fire inthe tepee led them to believe that the poacher was inthe vicinity, and to capture him was the next move. Asit had been snowing constantly all snowshoe tracks lead-ing from the camp were obliterated. Some five milesfrom the camp, however, they heard five or six rifle shotsin rapid succession. Hastening through the timber to anopening they came directly upon the poacher. He haddriven six of the buffaloes into the deep snow andslaughtered them all. Fortunately it was snowing hard,and the approach of the scout was not noticed by thepoacher or his dog until the arrest was made. He wastaken to the Lake Hotel and from there to the guardhouse at Fort Yellowstone. In addition to the twelvebuffaloes that were killed by this poacher a small herdof

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