Wonder Land Illustrated Or Horseback Rides Through The Yellowstone National Park Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The American Wonderland, the Yellowstone National Park In a letter recently received he writes It may be proper to say, in excuse of the roughness of some of the sketches, that they are almost untouched travel sketches, quite half, if not more, of the Park ones being taken on the logger-head of the Mexican saddle of my Cayuse, for I often feared to dismount lest the lariat should break, and I should be left to 'weary plod my homeward way' with the thermometer drop, drop, dropping down to freezing point. You will agree with me that Mr. Thomas need have sent us no excuse the very want of finish in some of the pictures is one of their chiefest charms - they come, as it were, red-hot from the artist's anvil. One more preliminary statement - I have been greatly embarrassed 'by the magnitude of the task undertaken, and the following account will be found to contain a good deal that was necessarily omitted during the reading of the Paper. 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.