<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> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Here’s a repeat without the mixed up margins…. Sorry.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> MA Bellingham [mailto:mabell126@bresnan.net] <br> </span></font> </p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy'>From my research I never felt it was from Vixen, but up Geyser Creek  “to the foot of the bluffs beyond the Paint-Pots”…  </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>            Here’s what I have in my notes that “could” be it…. </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>            </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy'>From PW Norris’ “Calumet of the Coteau”  (1883) (p 250) </span></font><font face=Courier><span style='font-family: Courier'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 face=Courier><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Courier'>“</span></font><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>From this place we ran a wagon as far as possible with animals, </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>then with men, towards the famous Geyser cone, now in the National Museum in Washington, which was nearly two miles, </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>            </span></font><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>by a circuitous route, to the foot of the bluffs beyond the Paint-Pots.  </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>There it required a blacksmith frequently sharpening tools, a man to assist in drilling and chiselling, </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>and another to carry and throw cold water upon them to prevent parboiling in the hot steam and jets from </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>its seventeen fine pulsating cones or orifices for nearly a week, and then twenty men to carry it amid the bottomless </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>boiling chaldrons to the wagon, and thence it was conveyed safely to Washington, although weighing nearly half a ton.”</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>I just found out tonight I have a commitment in Cody on April 24.  </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>Oh, if the East Entrance road would be open on opening weekend….</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>MA </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left: .5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'>M.A. Bellingham</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:-.5in'><font size=2 face="Verdana Ref"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana Ref"'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; 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