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Chittenden's Yellowstone National Park

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Title: The Yellowstone National Park Historical and Descriptive
Author: Chittenden, Hiram Martin
Description: xv, 397 pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout; folding map in the back. 7¼x5½, original green cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Published only twenty-five years after the famous 1870 exploration party, led by Henry D. Washburn, surveyor-general of the Montana territory. The Washburn party is credited with "discovering" Yellowstone Park. Related period printed advertisement leaf from the Northern Pacific Railroad, laid down on the rear pastedown.
Heading: Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher: Robert Clarke
Date Published: 1895