Identifier: diaryofwashburne00lang (find matches)
Title: Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Langford, Nathaniel Pitt, 1832-1911
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Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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MAI* OF YELLOWSTONE LAKE, as known between 18g0 and 1870. From the map of Raynolds Expedition of 1860. steps as rapidly as possible, and on reaching the base ofthe mountain, struck out for the lake, resolving to followthe beach, trusting that our party had made their camp on 64 Washburn Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. V<^
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-iCAMPoP Sew-yc?^ MAr OF YELLOWSTONE LAKE. Copy of the original outline sketched by Nathaniel P. Langford FROM the top of Mount Langford, Sept. 7, 1870, and completed Sept. 10 and 13. Washburn Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. 05 the shore of the hike, in whieli case we should find them;but if camped at any considerable distance from the shore,we should not find them. Our ride over fallen timber andthrough morass for the distance of about two miles to theshore of the lake was probably performed more skillfullyin the darkness of the night than if we had seen the ob-stacles in our path, and as we rounded a point on the smoothbeach we saw at a distance of a little over a mile the wel-come watch fire of our comrades. When we arrived withinhailing distance we gave a loud halloo, and the ready re-sponse by a dozen sympathetic voices of our companions-in-arms showed that our own anxiety had been shared bythem. Our camp to-night is on the westerly side of themost southeasterly bay of the lake.

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