The Yellowstone National Park Historical And Descriptive. Illustrated With Maps, Views And Portraits

HIRAM MARTIN CHITTENDEN

Publication: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895, Cincinnati

First edition. 8" x 5 1/2" in olive green cloth boards with title in gilt on cover and on spine. 397 pp., preface, contents, illustrations, list of illustrations, 5 appendices, index, maps. Includes chapters on John Colter, James Bridger, the Raynolds Expedition, gold in Montana, an Indian campaign through the National Park, Indian occupancy of the Upper Yellowstone, geology of the park, geysers, hot springs, fossil forests, roads, hotels, transportation, various tours of the park, railroad encroachment, listing of names of mountain peaks, streams, waterfalls, lakes, and geysers within the park, rules and regulation in the park, etc. Former owners book plate on front paste-down sheet with light off-setting to facing free front fly leaf along with his name neatly written at top of that page. Rubbing to corners, spine channel and to head and toe of spine.