<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=red> <div class=Section1> Happy New Year!  I am now catching up on my list serve reading and noticed a question about GL Henderson. The Henderson “Yellowstone Park Manual and Guide” (two versions, separate years) are some of the rarest of Ynp guidebooks, since they were published in newspaper form and thus very few survived. More than one probably was used to get a cooking fire going or used in the bush for other purposes…   Ten or more years ago I typed up both Henderson guides into a pagemaker doc formatting them like the original newspaper guides.  Scott and someone else mentioned they would like reading more Henderson.  The YNP Archives has a copy of my documents, or if there were enough interest, I would be willing to cut and paste the “geyser only” info into some other kind of doc for emailing, or I could post things on one of the YNP chat pages and you could copy and paste what interests you.  We would need to clarify what is “geyser only”, as Henderson waxed on prolifically on everything from Mammoth, Norris, Firehole, Glen Africa, etc etc. and etc.   It’s a lot of information; a four page newspaper spread amounted to a 40 page Word document. Oh for today’s OCR software…way back when I typed it all…   Henderson Sample: THE GRAND has no cone and a stranger would scarcely expect from its appearance such a fine display when in action. There are frequently as many as fourteen splendid discharges, reaching an altitude of over 200 feet and is held there steadily for several seconds.  The Fumarole, or safety valve, continues to discharge puffs of steam during the period of eruption. When the steam jets cease the eruption is over.  With the exception of Old Faithful all the geysers have this fumarole accompaniment. THE TURBAN is but a few yards from the Grand and its waters whirl with great velocity in a spiral form.   Henderson sample from 1885:  In 1882, when there was no Assistant Superintendents to keep watch over these geysers, some persons loaded up the Beehive to the muzzle with tin cans filled with pebbles and other substances. The geyser was quiescent for over fourteen days.  The Grand becoming grander than usual, it was inferred that the waters of the Beehive had found a subterranean passage and had become a part of the Grand.  However, she at last awoke and with one tremendous effort cleared her throat of all obstructions, sending the grape and cannister over 500 feet into the air, and woe be to the wretch who might stand in the way of this enraged Zantippe when she began her house cleaning.  One good thing has been done in the Upper Geyser Basin, there are finger boards near all the great geysers and hot springs that enable strangers to know what they are looking at, also indicating the way to the next nearest object of interest.  Assistant Superintendent J.W. Weimer took an active interest in this matter and did for the Upper Geyser Basin what the writer aimed to do for Mammoth Hot Springs.  The Norris Basin and the lower Firehole river have been almost entirely neglected in this regard.   I went for a ski at the MHS upper terrace loop on New Year’s Day to start 2005 in Yellowstone.  There is a new-to-me boardwalk near Orange Spring Mound enabling visitors to legally get closer to what Henderson named “the Infant Cones” those little cones behind Orange Spring Mound. Canary Spring is cookin.   Gardiner and Mammoth had a huge dump of snow, near one foot.  It was very nice. Happy New Year!  See ya at Lower Hams on April 22.   MA   MA Bellingham mabell126@bresnan.net </div> </body> </html>