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[Ferris
,
Warren
A.]
Article Title
Rocky
Mountain
Geysers
.
Extract
from an
unpublished
work
,
entitled
"
Life
in the
Rocky
Mountains
Journal Title
Western
Literary
Messenger
Date Published
July
13
,
1842
Volume ID
2
Issue ID
2
Page
13-Dec
Notes
The
July
6
,
1842
issue
of the
Western
Literary
Messenger
,
Buffalo
,
New
York
p.5
,
announced
"
We
have in
our
possession
the
manuscript
journal
of a
gentleman
,
who
passed
six
years
in the
Rocky
Mountains...
" and that
extracts
would be
published
in
subsequent
issues
of the
Messanger
. The
July
13
,
1842
issue
(pp.12-13)
contained
an
article
entitled
"
Rocky
Mountain
Geysers.
" This
article
was a
description
of the
geyser
basins
by an
unidentified
author
,
who
was
accompanied
by
two
Pen-'orielles
. The
same
article
was
printed
one
month
laterin
The
Wasp
,
(Nauvoo
,
Illinois)
v
.
1
no
.
17
for
(August
13
,
1842)
,
p
.
1
without
any
notice
of
source
. A
copy
of the
Wasp
article
was
obtained
by
Nathenial
Pitt
Langford
from
T
.
E
.
McKoin
of
Townsend
,
Montana
and
Langford
had
it
printed
in the
September
12
,
1872
issue
of the
Helena
Herald
.
McKoin
also
made
the
issue
of the
Wasp
available
to
Peter
Koch
who
included
the
entire
description
in his
article
"
Discovery
of the
Park
"
which
appeared
in the
Magazine
of
American
History
v
.
11
(June
1884)
pp
.
497-512
. In
1900
,
Olin
D
.
Wheeler
was
shown
the
issue
of the
Western
Literary
Messanger
for
July
13
,
1842
containing
the
article""Rocky
Mountain
Geysers
and
immediately
connected
it
with the
ariticle
from the
Wasp
.
Obtaining
volumes
two
and
three
of the
Messanger
he
followed
the
series
and in the
issue
for
January
11
,
1843
Warren
A.
Ferris
was
identified
as the
author
. The
mystery
of the
authorship
was
unravalied
in
Wheeler's
"The
Land
of the
Greater
Glories
"
inWonderland
1901
pp
.
56-60
.
Extracts
from the
Ferris
manuscript
had been
published
periodically
between
the
original
announcement
on
July
6
,
1842
until
the
first
in a
series
of
weekly
articles
appeared
on
January
11
,
1843
and
carried
Ferris's
name
as
author
. In the
issue
for
January
6
,
1844
the
description
of the
geyser
baisins
was
repeated
in a
slightly
varrient
form
from that in the
July
13
,
1842
issue
.
Because
of
reader
complaints
the
series
ended
in the
May
4
,
1844
issue
.
Call Number
4
Keywords
Trappers
in the
park
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