yellowstone lake state park Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/yellowstone-lake-state-park Tue, 21 Jun 2016 11:40:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Yellowstone Lake http://toursmaps.com/yellowstone-lake.html http://toursmaps.com/yellowstone-lake.html#respond Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:30:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=207061 No writer has better described Yellowstone Lake than did renowned naturalist John Muir in an Atlantic Monthly article of 1898: It is about twenty miles long and fifteen wide, and lies at a height of nearly 8000 feet above the level of the sea, amid dense black forests and snowy mountains. Around its winding, wavering shores, closely forested and picturesquely varied with promontories and bays, the distance is more than 100 miles_ It is full of trout, and a vast multitude of birds swans, pelicans, geese, ducks, cranes, herons, curlews, plovers, snipe feed in it and upon its shores; and

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