[Geysers] Grand Geyser Basin as historic name---from Lee Whittlesey

[Lee_Whittlesey at nps.gov]

To answer Lynn's question, who used the name "Grand Geyser Basin"?

My notes say that it was Harry Norton in his 1873 guidebook WONDERLAND
ILLUSTRATED.

Lee Whittlesey
Park Historian




                                                                                                                                     
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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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