[Geysers] More help on Grand--Grand Geyser Basin as historic name

[MA Bellingham]

Lynn, all...

Over the years whenever I looked up an "Obsolete Place Name" in Nomenclature 
I would jot down the source next to it, just for my personal information. I 
have nothing in those notes to clarify this for you.

Both Henderson guides list the usual basin names, with the only variation in 
today's nomenclature being "Silver Globe Basin" and "Mary's Geyser Basin".

Obsolete Place names are still showing up in "new" historic accounts, and I 
hear that Lee's new VIP is making note of where those came from before 
adding them to Lee's Obsolete Place Names List. Just like your query, 
someone, someday, might want to know those tidbits of information.

Finding something "enroute to looking up something else" is the story of my 
life!
This is what winter is for...Have fun!

MA

M.A. Bellingham


>From: "lynn stephens" <lstephens.eagle at mail.sisna.com>
>Reply-To: geyser observation reports <geysers at wwc.edu>
>To: <geysers at wwc.edu>
>Subject: [Geysers] More help on Grand--Grand Geyser Basin as historic name
>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:46:42 -0700
>
>
>Probably Lee, MA, Rocco, Dick Powell, Mike Keller, or someone else who is 
>into the early history of the Park and/or has access to a more extensive 
>library than I do--
>
>I have an item that says
>
>"Grand Geyser Basin is the historic name for Upper Geyser Basin thermal 
>springs area within the greater Firehole River drainage basin.  This basin 
>is host to Grand and Giant geysers.”
>
>I checked Wonderland Nomenclature and Lee lists Grand Geyser and Grand 
>Group, but doesn't have an entry for Grand Geyser Basin.  I checked Allen 
>and Day (who seem to agree with  Peale that "it is merely a coincidence 
>when it [Turban] acts in concert with the Grand p. 182) and didn't find any 
>reference to "Grand Geyser Basin."
>
>Working backward, the earliest Yellowstone Park Guide (1894) I have uses 
>"Upper Geyser Basin", as do Stanley's [1878] Rambles in Wonderland, and the 
>three Hayden reports.
>
>Does anyone know a "historical" source that used "Grand Geyser Basin" as 
>the name for Upper Geyser Basin?  (Maybe Henderson?)
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Lynn Stephens
>
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