The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and DescriptiveChittenden, Hiram Martin
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The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive
Chittenden, Hiram Martin
Yellowstone National Park
[Map locations refer only to outlets, or to points where streams
pass off the limits of the map. Altitudes refer to the same points,
but are given only in the most important cases.]
_Agate Creek_--E : 10--1878--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Alum Creek_--H : 9--Name known prior to 1870--Characteristic.
_Amethyst Greek_--E : 12--1878--U. S. G. S.--Flows from Amethyst
Mountain.
_Amphitheater Creek_--D : 13--1885--U. S. G. S.--From form of valley
near its mouth.
_Antelope Creek_--E : 10--1870--Washburn Party--Characteristic.--This
name is often applied locally to a tributary of the Yellowstone just
above Trout Creek.
_Arnica Creek_--L : 8--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Aster Creek_--P : 7--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Astrigent Creek_--J : 12--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Atlantic Creek_--S : 13--1873--Jones--Flows from Two-Ocean-Pass down
the Atlantic slope.
_Badger Creek_--P : 13--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Basin Creek_--Q : 9--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Bear Creek_--B : 7--1863--Party of prospectors under one Austin. On
the way they found fair prospects in a creek on the east side of the
Yellowstone, and finding also a hairless cub, called the gulch
"Bear."--Topping.
_Bear Creek_--K : 11--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Beaver Creek_--O : 9--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Beaver Dam Creek_--O : 12--1871--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Bechler River_--R : 1--1872--U. S. G. S.--For Gustavus R. Bechler,
topographer on the Snake River Division of the Hayden Expedition of
1872.
_Berry Creek_--U : 6--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Black-tail Deer Creek_--B : 8--Named prior to 1870--Characteristic.
_Bluff Creek_--H : 10--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Bog Creek_--H : 10--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Boone Creek_--T : 1--Named prior to 1870--For Robert Withrow, an
eccentric pioneer of Irish descent, who used to call himself "Daniel
Boone the Second."
_Bridge Creek_--K : 9--1871--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
"At one point, soon after leaving camp, we found a most singular
natural bridge of the trachyte, which gives passage to a small stream,
which we called Bridge Creek."--Hayden.
"Natural Bridge" is really over a branch of Bridge Creek.
_Broad Creek_--F : 10--1871--Barlow--Characteristic.
_Buffalo Creek_--D : 11--Prior to 1870--Naming party
unknown--Characteristic.
_Burnt Creek_--E : 10--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Cache Creek_--F : 13--1863--Prospecting party under one Austin were
in camp on this stream when they were surprised by Indians, and all
their stock stolen except one or two mules. Being unable to carry all
their baggage from this point, they _cached_ what they could not place
on the mules, or could not themselves carry. From this circumstance
arose the name.
_Calfee Creek_--F : 13--1880--Norris--For H. B. Calfee, a photographer
of note.
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