[Geysers] An old mystery geyser

[Gary Einstein]

Great post!!!!!!!!!!!

This "picture" and more like it are in "California Illustrated, 
including a trip through Yellowstone Park" searchable through 
books.google.com (which I found thanks to a post by Scott last winter).  
I will try to attach, but because of its size, may not be able to.

Geeze, my daughters may be right.  I am becoming, or already am, a 
geyser geek, when I recognize this liliputian picture from memory.

Gary Einstein

jacross wrote:
> The engraving shows Old Faithful as it was during the first Liliputian 
> Expedition (1873), which was sent to Yellowstone for the purpose of boiling an 
> egg in Old Faithful.  The expedition's leader, Dr. Hayden Ferdinand, ate the 
> boiled egg pointy-end-first, beating his rival, Washburn Henry, who, two weeks 
> later, repeated the same feat but started to eat his egg from the round end.  
> Both of these pioneers were, however, beaten by Pott Johns who, 42 years 
> earlier, cut his boiled egg in half, lengthwise, and mashed it up on his plate 
> prior to eating it.  First credit for eating eggs boiled in Old Faithful, 
> however, should be given to the Egg-Eater Tribe, who boiled eggs in the 
> geysers and then peeled them after smashing the shells against their 
> foreheads.  The eggs were then served with makh-tomh, which was their 
> equivalent of mayonnaise.  Current research into Egg-Eater records and lore 
> does not reveal whether they had a tradition regarding which end of the egg to 
> eat first.
>
> Jeff Cross
> jacross at lamar.colostate.edu
>
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>> ===== Original Message From SCOTT BRYAN <tsbryan_380 at msn.com> =====
>> Well, a mystery geyser of another sort -- No doubt some of you have seen this 
>>     
> but nevertheless... name the Yellowstone geyser that is obviously accurately 
> shown by this 1874 engraving.
>   
>> Scott Bryan
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