View looking S.E. up the valley of the Lamar River with the Yellowstone Park Buffalo Ranch near at hand. On our right, rising from the valley, we see the long slopes of Specimen Ridge, where the Fossil Forest is to be found. In the far distance up the valley are some of the peaks of the Absaroka Range. The Buffalo Ranch itself is an interesting place with its big yards enclosed by massive fences 8 and 10 ft. high built of pine logs, where the buffalo are confined in winter and at other times when for any reason it is desired to separate some of the animals from the herd of about 900 which live in the Park, normally in their native wild state. The residence of Mr. Lacombe, the manager of the Buffalo Ranch, is the house which we see farthest to the right with a flag pole in front of it. "Bob" Lacombe is a typical Western ranchman who is quite in his element looking after the Buffalo Ranch. Sometimes he has as many as 24 men working for him at the ranch, particularly in summer when hay is being cut in the river valley for the sustenance of the buffalo during the long months of the winter. The Buffalo Ranch at that season is an isolated place in which to live. Snow shoes are the most convenient mode of traveling for the splendid Park highways are buried in snow many feet deep. The nearest inhabited place, then, is Mammoth Hot Springs, nearly 30 miles distant over the mountains, to the westward. At Mammoth throughout the winter there is a little colony of about 100 people, most of them Park Rangers and their families living in... [unfinished]
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View looking S.E. up the valley of the Lamar River with the Yellowstone Park Buffalo Ranch near at hand. On our right, rising from the valley, we see the long slopes of Specimen Ridge, where the Fossil Forest is to be found. In the far distance up the valley are some of the peaks of the Absaroka Range. The Buffalo Ranch itself is an interesting place with its big yards enclosed by massive fences 8 and 10 ft. high built of pine logs, where the buffalo are confined in winter and at other times when for any reason it is desired to separate some of the animals from the herd of about 900 which live in the Park, normally in their native wild state. The residence of Mr. Lacombe, the manager of the Buffalo Ranch, is the house which we see farthest to the right with a flag pole in front of it. "Bob" Lacombe is a typical Western ranchman who is quite in his element looking after the Buffalo Ranch. Sometimes he has as many as 24 men working for him at the ranch, particularly in summer when hay is being cut in the river valley for the sustenance of the buffalo during the long months of the winter. The Buffalo Ranch at that season is an isolated place in which to live. Snow shoes are the most convenient mode of traveling for the splendid Park highways are buried in snow many feet deep. The nearest inhabited place, then, is Mammoth Hot Springs, nearly 30 miles distant over the mountains, to the westward. At Mammoth throughout the winter there is a little colony of about 100 people, most of them Park Rangers and their families living in... [unfinished].
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