Excerpt from The Land of Geysers: Yellowstone National Park, Reached by the Northern Pacific Railway Many of the mountaineers and trappers of the period before the Civil War, knew the locality. James Bridger, a noted guide in the '3o's and '4o's, and Joseph Meek, an old time mountain man, often told of the geysers and hot springs. 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.