English: "On this spot, August 24, 1877, the Nez Perce Chiefs held a council to decide the fate of the Cowan party who had been captured that morning in the Lower Geyser Basin. The party were released, but afterwards recaptured, taken back about half a mile east of the council ground, and there attacked by the Indians. Cowan was left for dead, Carpenter and the two ladies were taken along as prisoners and the rest escaped."

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Title: Campbell's new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Campbell, Reau
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Publisher: Chicago : H.E. Klamer
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s; in 1881, Gov. JohnW. Hoyt of Wyoming and escort underMaj. Juhus W. Mason. Gen. Phil Sheridan was in the Park twice during the seasons of 1881 and 1882. But in 1883 the influx of distinguished travelers reached a climax. In thatyear came the President of the United States, the Secretary of War, theLieutenant-General of the Army, Chief Justice and Associate Justices of theSupreme Court, United States Senators, Foreign Ministers from Germanyand England, Members of Parliament, President of the Admiralty, togetherwith a large number of prominent officers of the United States Army anddistinguished civilians, not to omit the famous photographer, F. Jay Haynes,who accompanied the presidential party, and whose photographs were animportant feature in the subsequent reports. President Arthurs caravan was an imposing one; everybody was on horse-back and the escort was a full troop of cavalry. The pack-train was the mostcomplete that ever took the road anywhere. The route covered nearly four 30
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COWAN TREE. hundred miles; couriers were stationed at intervals of twenty miles, withrelays, that the President might remain in quick communication with a.\parts of the country, even though he was in the wilderness and three thousancmiles from the capital. It was altogether the most imposing and important expedition that hadever visited the Yellowstone Park. During 1884, Mr. Robert E. Carpenter of Iowa, as Park Superintendent, setout to promote the schemes that had their origin under the Conger adminis-tration, and spent the most of his time in and about the halls of Congress inthe interest of the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company, who were to doso much for its members under the guise of public utility. The failure of theImprovement Companys measures in Congress and Mr. Carpenters interest

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