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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Subjects: Yellowstone National Park West (U.S.) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V T FIND myself, said the Driver, at the next ses- sion of the Scheherazade Society, as Colonel Baggs called their camp-fires, in a whale of a di- lemmer. I have never had nothin' happen to me worth tellin'. I have punched cows till this dry farmin' made it necessary to take to some more humble callin', and there's nothin' to cow-punchin' that is interestin'. I have showed you here in the Upper Geyser Basin fifteen geysers of the first magnitude, an' a hundred smaller ones; I have showed you Old Faithful, the Giant, the Giantess, the Fan and the Riverside. I have showed you the Grotto Geyser, which is a cross between a geyser and a cave. I have showed you the quiescent spring at its best -- the Morning Glory pool with more colors than any rainbow ever had. I've showed you jewels and giants and ogres and sprites, and -- Here! shouted the Groom. Saw off on thatprofessional patter! You're not the driver now, but Aconite Driscoll, the Cow-boy, and telling us the story of your life. We have seen more things here than Miinchhausen, Gulliver, Mandeville, Old Jim Bridger and the whole brood of romancers ever could imagine. Give us some North American facts, now. Well, if I must, I must, said poor Aconite. But there's nothin' to it. I reckon I'd better narrate to you some of the humble doin's of the J-Up- and-Down Ranch over on Wolf Nose Crick, in the foot-hills of the Black Hills -- in the dear, dead past beyond recall -- thanks to the Campbell method of dry farmin'. THE TALE OF TEN THOUSAND BOGIES TH...

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