Excerpt from Discovery of the Yellowstone National Park: A Chapter of Early Exploration in the Rocky Mountains Gradually it came to be generally talked of through Montana that wonderful volcanic phenomena existed near the sources of the Madison and Yellowstone, and in 1870 the geysers may be said to have been really discovered bya party of gentlemen from Helena, Montana, under-the lead of Surveyor-general Washburne and Lieut. Doane, with a squad of soldiers from Fort Ellis. The history of their journey has been often told: by Lieut. Doane, in his admirable report to the War Department: by Mr. Langford, in Scribner? Mont/2130 and by others in various maga zines and newspapers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.