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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Yellowstone Nights - -Author: Herbert Quick - -Release Date: August 26, 2012 [EBook #40587] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YELLOWSTONE NIGHTS *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40587 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -413,7 +374,7 @@ load. All looked at the Bride as commander-in-chief—the Bride nodded. <p>They rolled through the great arch at the entrance, and bowled along the road in breath-taking style as they crossed bridge after bridge, the -walls of Gardiner Cañon towering on each side with its left-hand copings +walls of Gardiner Cañon towering on each side with its left-hand copings crumbling into pinnacles like ruined battlements, on which sat fishing-eagles as sentinels, their eyes scanning the flashing stream below. The wild roses were still in sparse bloom; the cottonwood groves @@ -671,11 +632,11 @@ surreptitious sketch of the Colonel.</p> <p>"It was thirty-three years ago the latter part of this month," said the Colonel. "I carried a knapsack in the chase after Chief Joseph and the -Nez Percès. There were pretty average lively times right in this +Nez Percès. There were pretty average lively times right in this vicinity with the first tourists, so far as I know, that ever came into the Park. Some fellows had been up in the Mount Everts country, and to -the lower falls. The Nez Percès rushed them. A fellow named Stewart -found himself looking into the muzzle of the rifle of a Nez Percè, and +the lower falls. The Nez Percès rushed them. A fellow named Stewart +found himself looking into the muzzle of the rifle of a Nez Percè, and made the sign of the cross. The red with the gun, being a pretty fair Christian as Christians go—the tribe had been converted for thirty years—as conversions go—refrained from shooting when he saw the sign. @@ -696,7 +657,7 @@ race might ripen into one of those legends the artists deplore the lack of. The campers here had a nigger cook named Stone—Ben Stone—I arrested and confined for giving thanks to the Lord after we picked him up. He was here at Mammoth Hot Springs when a fellow—I forget his -name—was shot. The Nez Percès went by one day and saw him here. Next +name—was shot. The Nez Percès went by one day and saw him here. Next day they came back more peeved than before and shot the man. Ben, the cook, ran, and they after him. He shinned up into one of these trees—maybe that one there. The Indians lost sight of him, and stopped @@ -1031,8 +992,8 @@ democratic, and he finally yielded growlingly. He was awfully pleased afterward when the papers began to write the thing up. He said it was the cheapest advertising he ever got, and patted me on the shoulder and asked me if I wasn't ashamed to be so neglectful of my great invention. -So one day I got tired of working out Rubáiyát motifs in brass, and I -went over to the café for luncheon, incog. And what do you think? Billy +So one day I got tired of working out Rubáiyát motifs in brass, and I +went over to the café for luncheon, incog. And what do you think? Billy came in and sat down very informally right across from me!</p> <p>"Hello!" said he, putting out his hand. "I've been looking for you for @@ -1125,7 +1086,7 @@ were looking for some one in particular, and I smiled at the thought of any one being so silly as to search those throngs on the strength of any chance hint any person might have dropped. I was affected by the pathos of it, though. It seemed so much like the Saracen lady going from port -to port hunting for Thomas à Becket's father—though, of course, he +to port hunting for Thomas à Becket's father—though, of course, he wasn't any one's father then, but I can't think of his name.</p> <p>The next evening I took Atkins, my maid, and walked down by the Lincoln @@ -1195,7 +1156,7 @@ laborer ought not to feel so of another, for we are all equal; but it <p>"I don't have 'em any more," he urged.</p> -<p>And then he explained about the émeute in the line-gang, and the +<p>And then he explained about the émeute in the line-gang, and the four-hole connectors, and confessed to the violent and sanguinary manner in which he had felt called upon to put down the uprising. I could feel my face grow hot and cold by turns, like Desdemona's while Othello was @@ -1335,7 +1296,7 @@ was astonished to learn that Mr. Helmerston was in my reception-room.</p> within a reasonable time of waiting; but 'e said 'e would remain until you came, Miss, nevertheless."</p> -<p>I went down to him just as I was, in my simple piqué dress, wearing the +<p>I went down to him just as I was, in my simple piqué dress, wearing the violets he had given me. "Mr. Helmerston," said I, "I must apologize for the difficulty I have given you in obtaining the very slight boon of meeting me, and say how good you are to come again—and wait. Any friend @@ -1408,11 +1369,11 @@ superlatives were concerned. Night found them scattered, and it was only when they took the road once more that the party was whole again. The Artist stopped the surrey at the Gibbon Paint Pots so that he might use some of their bubbling sediment as a pigment with which to paint a -souvenir picture for each of the party. Cañons, boiling springs and +souvenir picture for each of the party. Cañons, boiling springs and waterfalls—rocks, mountains, wild beauty on every hand—all these they were assured were inconsiderable parts of the prelude to the marvels awaiting them at the next halt. But when they came to the crossing of -Nez Percè Creek, the Bride expressed a desire to wait, to stop, to rest +Nez Percè Creek, the Bride expressed a desire to wait, to stop, to rest her eyes and quiet her spirits before anything more striking should be imposed upon her powers of observation.</p> @@ -1429,7 +1390,7 @@ our systems up a little."</p> <p>"The champion hard-luck story of this or any other age," said the Colonel, as they lighted their pipes after dinner, "was enacted right up -this creek in that Nez Percè uprising wherein I fought and bled and +this creek in that Nez Percè uprising wherein I fought and bled and died."</p> <p>"More matter for myths," said the Artist. "Let's have it, e'en though it @@ -1437,12 +1398,12 @@ be as dolorous as the tale of the Patient Griselda."</p> <p>"I don't recall more of Griselda's story," said the Colonel, "than that she was given the worst of it by her husband, the king. But this Nez -Percè Creek story isn't any tale of the perfidy of our nearest and +Percè Creek story isn't any tale of the perfidy of our nearest and dearest, but of things just unanimously breaking bad for a man from Radersburg, Mr. Cowan. He and his wife and some friends were camped down here a couple of miles at the Lower Geyser Basin, right close by the Fountain Geyser, just beyond the hotel—only there wasn't any hotel yet -for thirty years. Chief Joseph and his Nez Percès came through trying to +for thirty years. Chief Joseph and his Nez Percès came through trying to get away from the United States. They picked up the Cowan party, and brought them right along where we now are, and a few miles up this creek, where Joseph, Looking-Glass, and the other chiefs held a @@ -1471,7 +1432,7 @@ the thigh, the head, and the back, and with his head hammered to a jelly by the rocks thrown on it, started to crawl back to camp. He met Indians, and hid from them. He crawled day after day—being unable to walk a step. He had a chance—for an uninjured man—to catch a Nez -Percè pony which had been abandoned, but could not walk. Hard luck, +Percè pony which had been abandoned, but could not walk. Hard luck, indeed! He met a body of friendly Bannock scouts who would have taken care of him, but he supposed them to be hostiles and hid from them. Harder luck still! After crawling seven or eight miles, which took @@ -1552,7 +1513,7 @@ music and tales, the Bride went on with her story.</p> <p>The Pruntys live near Saint Joe, where they have a town and stockyards and grain-elevators, and thousands and thousands of acres of land all of -their own, just like mediæval barons—only instead of having a castle +their own, just like mediæval barons—only instead of having a castle with a donjon-keep with battlements and mysterious oubliettes and drizzly cells and a moat, they live in a great wooden house with verandas all round, and of a sort of composite architecture—Billy says @@ -2591,7 +2552,7 @@ and riotousness of a few moments ago, to a certain solemnity. One of them carried a little box carefully wrapped up, as a devotee might carry an offering to a shrine. The huge farmer glanced casually at them as if with full knowledge of what they were doing, and, ignoring my -interruption, seemed to resume his monologue—as might the habitué of a +interruption, seemed to resume his monologue—as might the habitué of a temple pass by the question of a stranger concerning a matter related to the mysteries—something not to be discussed, difficult to be explained, or not worth mention. He pointed out of the window.</p> @@ -2851,7 +2812,7 @@ jewels and giants and ogres and sprites, and—"</p> <p>"Here!" shouted the Groom. "Saw off on that professional patter! You're not the driver now, but Aconite Driscoll, the Cow-boy, and telling us -the story of your life. We have seen more things here than Münchhausen, +the story of your life. We have seen more things here than Münchhausen, Gulliver, Mandeville, Old Jim Bridger and the whole brood of romancers ever could imagine. Give us some North American facts, now."</p> @@ -3373,9 +3334,9 @@ challenged the Artist, with no takers.</p> all except the Hired Man and the Professor with delight. When the party alighted for the walk of half a mile to the Lone Star Geyser, these two remained with the surrey—the Professor busy, the Hired Man lazily -smoking. His mental film-pack was exhausted. Spring Creek Cañon proved +smoking. His mental film-pack was exhausted. Spring Creek Cañon proved another of those comforting features which relieve the strain of -constant astonishment in the Park—the narrow and winding cañon, with +constant astonishment in the Park—the narrow and winding cañon, with its homelike rocks and cliffs, topped by inky evergreens, shut them in like some comforting shelter against the tempest of the marvelous. Down this wild glen tumbled a clear stream of cold water, bordered with @@ -3401,7 +3362,7 @@ p'isenous exhalations of this region of wonders."</p> <p>"Was he whiched?"</p> -<p>"Jimbridgered; Marcopoloed; Münchhausened; Mandevilled; Driscolled; +<p>"Jimbridgered; Marcopoloed; Münchhausened; Mandevilled; Driscolled; placed in the Ananias Club?"</p> <p>"He shore was," replied Aconite. "W'y this place was called Colter's @@ -3585,7 +3546,7 @@ same situation. Chester is an Ames man, and a fine judger and feeder of cattle, but not fitted for responsibility in <i>belles-lettres</i>.</p> <p>Professor Dustin, an elderly and myopic educator and the author of a -monograph on the Grübe method, had charge of the examination when Miss +monograph on the Grübe method, had charge of the examination when Miss Frayn appeared. I found Chester smoking a vile pipe in my lodgings when I came home.</p> @@ -3653,7 +3614,7 @@ transparent, and of a delicacy our western girls seldom display (owing, I surmise, to climatic influences); she stood there on Aunt Judith's Persian rug, her petite figure with its rounded curves, half-levitated, like Atalanta upon the oat-heads—and there returned upon me the mental -vertigo, the lack of cerebral coördination, and the obliteration of the +vertigo, the lack of cerebral coördination, and the obliteration of the material universe.</p> <p>"Am Ah so igno'ant, really?" said she. "Ah'm fond of children; and Ah @@ -3743,7 +3704,7 @@ that would soon overshadow my official life. I took their attendance as proof of the popularity of the school. I studied the philosophers, and sought calm of spirit. Learning from Epictetus that the earthen pitcher and the rock do not agree, and from Lubbock that love at first sight is -thought by great minds actually to occur, I reëxamined my abnormal +thought by great minds actually to occur, I reëxamined my abnormal psychic symptoms in Miss Frayn's presence, and prudently refrained from seeking her society. Poise alone makes possible a consistent career, and this I had in large measure reconquered, when, like a bolt from the @@ -4053,7 +4014,7 @@ prejudice, and unreasonable provincialism as being at the bottom of the case.</p> <p>"And," he added, "I may add jealousy—jealousy, your Honor, of the -defendant's charms of person, which, as a part of the <i>res gestæ</i>, are +defendant's charms of person, which, as a part of the <i>res gestæ</i>, are evidence in this case, if your honor only would observe them."</p> <p>The judge started and blushed, but still looked steadily away. Mr. @@ -4237,7 +4198,7 @@ entirely alone, Professor?"</p> <p>The Professor, embarrassed by the presence of the Bride, could only bow.</p> <p>"Gad!" said Colonel Baggs, taking his hand. "Your case goes into the -hard-luck file with that of the Nez Percè victim, Mr. Cowan of +hard-luck file with that of the Nez Percè victim, Mr. Cowan of Radersburg."</p> @@ -4641,7 +4602,7 @@ Turn in, you fool, and be ready for the saddle at sun-up!"</p> <p>We rode two days in the country that looks like the men had gone out when they had the construction work on it half done, when a couple of -horsemen came out of a draw into the cañon ahead of us.</p> +horsemen came out of a draw into the cañon ahead of us.</p> <p>"The one on the pinto," said I, "is the perspiration specialist."</p> @@ -4692,7 +4653,7 @@ City or Denver."</p> <p>"Both got the same guilty secret," said I, "and they've got it the worst. They know where Pete is. So will we if we follow their spoor."</p> -<p>We pelted on right brisk after them. The draw got to be a cañon, with +<p>We pelted on right brisk after them. The draw got to be a cañon, with grassy, sheep-nibbled bottom, and we knew we were close to somewhere. At last, rolling to us around a bend, came a tide of remarks, rising and swelling to the point of rough-house and riot.</p> @@ -4971,7 +4932,7 @@ got it. Amelia promised to love, honor and cherish by nodding her head, and walked away from the altar with her most graceful physical culture gait, while the boys outside with their shivaree instruments ready for the evening, sang in unison, "Here comes the bride! Get on to her -stride!" It was a <i>recherché</i> affair—but excessively quiet nuptials on +stride!" It was a <i>recherché</i> affair—but excessively quiet nuptials on the bride's side.</p> <p>That evening Absalom Scales got in the finest piece of work that was @@ -5114,7 +5075,7 @@ a good-by.</p> these days, won't we, Billy?"</p> <p>"Sure!" said Billy. "I'm coming up to put in a power plant in the Grand -Cañon, one of these days. This scenery lacks the refining touch of the +Cañon, one of these days. This scenery lacks the refining touch of the spillway and the penstock!"</p> <p>Fifteen minutes' driving brought them to the second halt, a big basin of @@ -5145,7 +5106,7 @@ the regular road from which we have diverged?"</p> clear spring in the grotto right by it; Mud Geyser, off watch for a year or more; Trout Creek, doubled around into the N.P. trade-mark; Sulphur Mountain—we can camp right near there, and see it in the morning, when -we ought to see it—and on beyond, the Grand Cañon and everything. +we ought to see it—and on beyond, the Grand Cañon and everything. Besides—unless we go that-a-way, we'll never git back unless we come by the Burlington around by Toluca and Billings. Of course, it's all the same to me—I don't keer if we never go back or git anywhere. I'm havin' @@ -5761,17 +5722,17 @@ through a mere fifty-foot crack in the rocks, was gone. It turned abruptly away from the road, and fell away into space. They had passed the Upper Falls, where the Yellowstone, in a great spouting curve drops a sheer hundred and twelve feet in a curtain of white water, and sends -up from the bottom of the cañon its hymn to liberty, in a cloud of mist.</p> +up from the bottom of the cañon its hymn to liberty, in a cloud of mist.</p> <p>They were no longer the tired sight-seers, with jaded senses; for this was new. They felt the thrill of power. And as they passed on, promising themselves a return when camp should be made, they cried out in delight -as the Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone displayed the stupendous sluiceway +as the Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone displayed the stupendous sluiceway into which the river had fallen. At their feet the lovely Crystal Falls of Cascade Creek played exquisitely, almost unnoted. The roar of the -falls followed them to the Cañon Hotel near which they camped, and +falls followed them to the Cañon Hotel near which they camped, and leaving the pitching of the tents to the men, they walked to the brink -of the cañon, and gazed upon the most perfect scene, perhaps, that +of the cañon, and gazed upon the most perfect scene, perhaps, that water, in its flow to the sea, has anywhere sculptured and painted to delight the eye of man. The Yosemite has greater heights; the Colorado offers huger dimensions, the Niagara or the Victoria possess mightier @@ -6052,7 +6013,7 @@ him starve!' And I ain't going to!"</p> long—and he's Jim's father!"</p> <p>She looked out of the window and dabbed with a lace handkerchief at her -bright eyes, which she dared not wipe for fear of ruin to the appliqué +bright eyes, which she dared not wipe for fear of ruin to the appliqué complexion. Suddenly she had, to the mind of the susceptible John Smith, become a woman, with a woman's weakness and yearning over the departed Jim—of the blackness of whose life John had no means of taking the @@ -6200,7 +6161,7 @@ young fool. Good night!"</p> <h2>CHAPTER XI</h2> -<p>The traveler who is wise, going from Grand Cañon Hotel to Tower Falls, +<p>The traveler who is wise, going from Grand Cañon Hotel to Tower Falls, will pass over Mount Washburn—and he starts early. He starts early that he may take with him the memory of the Upper and Lower Falls wrapped in the mist which they and night have wrought together, and which the @@ -6230,7 +6191,7 @@ silver; and as if for another good-by, away off to the south stood Mount Sheridan, with the three Tetons to the right of it, solemnly overlooking the Park of which they are a part to the eye only.</p> -<p>"Oh! Oh!" said the Bride, gasping. "There's the Grand Cañon, like a +<p>"Oh! Oh!" said the Bride, gasping. "There's the Grand Cañon, like a crack in the floor!"</p> <p>"And," said the Poet, "there's the ghost of wasted power, mistily @@ -6241,7 +6202,7 @@ Poet."</p> <p>Another turn, and the Absarakas notched the eastern horizon; and the whole huge valley, with titanic slopes as its farther wall, and the -zigzag trench of the cañon as its central drain, lay at their feet. The +zigzag trench of the cañon as its central drain, lay at their feet. The air was cooler, now, and the breath came short, as lungs labored for more of the rare atmosphere. At their feet lay green meadows and open parks, on which they might have expected to see grazing herds of shaggy @@ -6259,7 +6220,7 @@ and Storm Peaks are the culminations.</p> something away off to the northwest. "That thing is the Devil's Slide."</p> <p>"And we saw his Inkstand yesterday," said the Hired Man. "He seems to've -preëmpted a lot of this here region."</p> +preëmpted a lot of this here region."</p> <p>"Well," remarked the Colonel sardonically, "isn't the Park dedicated to the enjoyment, as well as the benefit of the people?"</p> @@ -6491,7 +6452,7 @@ fair, even with an Imp."</p> <p>I failed to come to the defense of my position, and he went on.</p> <p>"Well," said he, "do you remember the Bottle Imp's history that this man -Stevenson gives us? Cæsar had it once, and wished himself clear up to +Stevenson gives us? Cæsar had it once, and wished himself clear up to the head of the Roman Empire. Charlemagne, Napoleon, and a good many of the fellows who had everything coming their way, owed their successes to the Bottle Imp, and their failures to selling out too soon: got scared @@ -6533,7 +6494,7 @@ idiots, after getting rid of their leprosy! When I think how that Bottle Imp has been mismanaged, I am driven—"</p> <p>He illustrated that to which he was driven, by a gesture with the bottle -on the table. He coughed, and took up his <i>résumé</i> of the story.</p> +on the table. He coughed, and took up his <i>résumé</i> of the story.</p> <p>"Let that pass. They put it up at four <i>centimes</i>, and without Keawe's knowledge that she had anything to do with it, Keawe's wife got an old @@ -6562,7 +6523,7 @@ say so!"</p> sitting across the table, and us mingling our breaths like true conspirators. He had a good working majority in the breaths, however.</p> -<p>"Who's the Charlemagne, the J. Cæsar, the Napoleon of the present day?" +<p>"Who's the Charlemagne, the J. Cæsar, the Napoleon of the present day?" he whispered in reply, after looking furtively over his shoulder. "It don't need a Sherlock Holmes to tell that, does it?"</p> @@ -6581,7 +6542,7 @@ anything covert and dangerous.</p> <p>"He bought this Bottle Imp," my companion went on, resuming his seat, "of the old sailing-master, or whatever he was—the man with the downward tendency and the jag. What J. D. wanted was power, just as -Cæsar and Napoleon wanted it in their times. But the same kind of power +Cæsar and Napoleon wanted it in their times. But the same kind of power wouldn't do. Armies were the tools of nations then; now they are the playthings. Now nations are the tools of money, and wealth runs the machine. This emperor of ours chose between having the colors dip as he @@ -6649,7 +6610,7 @@ irreducible minimum!"</p> are not engaged in what Senator Lodge in our conference last night called 'hot finance'?"</p> -<p>"No," I admitted, for in spite of the orthoëpic error, I understood him. +<p>"No," I admitted, for in spite of the orthoëpic error, I understood him. "No, I am not—exactly."</p> <p>"I inferred as much from your remark," said he. "When there's anything @@ -6797,12 +6758,12 @@ earth. Perhaps it is. Certainly no fault has ever been found with it as a picture. The Seven Wonderers spent a day near their pretty camp, resting, exploring, and renewing their acquaintance with the gorge of the Yellowstone, and forming that of the Needle, slender as a campanile, -and three hundred feet high, marking the end of the Grand Cañon. +and three hundred feet high, marking the end of the Grand Cañon. Junction Butte, which they crossed the New Bridge to see, standing where many roads and rivers meet, seemed to the Bride another monument placed there by the gods with manifest intention. Why otherwise, she queried, could not the Needle be anywhere else, just as well as at the lower end -of the Grand Cañon, or Junction Butte, in any other place as easily as +of the Grand Cañon, or Junction Butte, in any other place as easily as in this cross-roads of highways and waters?</p> <p>"Why, indeed?" assented the Groom. "When you find a stone stuck on end @@ -6846,7 +6807,7 @@ that has been!"</p> New Bridge, though the road invited, and the Artist strongly argued for the trip. He wanted to see the Fossil Forest, and Amethyst Falls, Amethyst Creek, Amethyst Mountain and Specimen Ridge. But they turned -their backs on these, on Soda Butte and its wonderful cañon, and that of +their backs on these, on Soda Butte and its wonderful cañon, and that of the Lamar, on the piscatorial delights of Trout Lake, the mystery of Death Gulch, and the weirdnesses of the Hoodoo Region. The Bride and Groom were due to take train from Gardiner, and on to San Francisco. At @@ -7472,7 +7433,7 @@ frock, they gradually recovered, and were soon in the group which hung about the Bride paying homage to those twin gods of all our adoration, Beauty and Millinery. From soup to nuts they discussed their adventures, and re-trod their marvelous road. As the Bride rose to withdraw when the -coffee and cigars were served, there was a loud adverse vivâ voce vote. +coffee and cigars were served, there was a loud adverse vivâ voce vote. The Bride must stay; she had stayed at the camp-fire, and she should not leave them in the banquet hall. So it was an unbroken circle that listened to the last of the Yellowstone Nights' tales, as it fell from @@ -7670,7 +7631,7 @@ steps straight forward: it was always climbing up, or leaping down, or going around, or crawling under. Here thick leaves upheld the snow, and in the dry pine straw on the ground he could hear the forest mice rustle and scurry. There a field was smoothed over by the snow, as a trap is -hidden by sand, covering débris just high enough to imperil the limbs of +hidden by sand, covering débris just high enough to imperil the limbs of the pedestrian. Yonder was a tamarack swamp too thick to be pierced: and everywhere it was over and under and up and down, and desperately hard, for miles and miles, with no place for repose.</p> @@ -7807,7 +7768,7 @@ found its mark, threw in another shell, and stood tensely ready to try the bisecting of the smitten deer's first agonized bound—but the blur of fur just stirred a little, and slipped down out of sight.</p> -<p>Panting in the killer's frenzy, Loree struggled over the débris to +<p>Panting in the killer's frenzy, Loree struggled over the débris to reach his game. How oddly the deer had fallen! Heart, or brain, likely; as it went down like a log. Here was the thicket, and on the other side—yes, a patch of reddened snow, and the body of—no, not a deer, @@ -7862,7 +7823,7 @@ there were some inexplicable references to Kosmos Chemical affairs; and on the cover were dim initials that looked like "F. V. D."</p> <p>"I know something is wrong," went on Trudeau; "for I tell her it ben -<i>très dangéreuse</i> to wear deerskin zhaquette in zese wood' in shoo<i>ting</i> +<i>très dangéreuse</i> to wear deerskin zhaquette in zese wood' in shoo<i>ting</i> sea<i>sone</i>. I turn zhaquette red out. She go toward your camp. I watch. I see her turn heem hair out. I tell you, messieurs, zat man want to go home in wooden ove'coat. She have hungaire to die."</p> @@ -7941,382 +7902,6 @@ thanks to all, and now let us close the book, after writing</p> <h3>THE END</h3> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Yellowstone Nights, by Herbert Quick - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YELLOWSTONE NIGHTS *** - -***** This file should be named 40587-h.htm or 40587-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/5/8/40587/ - -Produced by Greg Bergquist, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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