Texts: Tales and Novels, New Langford Edition, 10 vols.

ole Rivers in the Year 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford 1905 CONTENTS Foreword (not included) Introduction Journal Index (not included) INTRODUCTION

Dear Sam and Langford: Stickney wrote me that the Yellow Stone party had dwindled down to eight persons.

Truman C. Everts was assessor of internal revenue for Montana, and Nathaniel P. Langford (the writer) had been for nearly five years the United States collector of internal revenue for Montana, and had been appointed governor of Montana by Andrew Johnson, but, owing to the imbroglio of the Senate with Johnson, his appointment was not confirmed.

When I learned from them in the late fall of 1870 or spring of 1871 what they intended to do, I remonstrated with them and stated that from the description given by them and by members of Mr. Langford's party, the whole region should be made into a National Park and no private proprietorship be allowed.

I was elected Delegate to Congress from Montana in August, 1871, and after the election, Nathaniel P. Langford, Cornelius Hedges and myself had a consultation in Helena, and agreed that every effort should be made to establish the Park as soon as possible, and before any person had got a serious foot-holdMr.

In December, 1871, Mr. Langford came to Washington and remained there for some time, and we two counseled together about the Park project.

I drew the bill to establish the Park, and never knew Professor Hayden in connection with that bill, except that I requested Mr. Langford to get from him a description of the boundaries of the proposed Park.

There was some delay in getting the description, and my recollection is that Langford brought me the description after consultation with Professor Hayden.

Mr. N.P. Langford St. Paul, Minn., Dear Sir: I am glad to read the newspaper cutting from the Pioneer Press of April 19th, which you so kindly sent me.

Mr. N.P. Langford.

" An amusing feature of the identity of my name with the Park was that my friends, with a play upon my initials, frequently addressed letters to me in the following style: [Illustration: National Park Langford]

One reviewer said: "This Langford must be the champion liar of the Northwest."

Resting for a time under this imputation, I confess to a feeling of satisfaction in reading from a published letter, written later in the summer of 1871 from the Upper Geyser basin by a member of the U.S. Geological Survey, the words: "Langford did not dare tell one-half of what he saw.

" NATHANIEL PITT LANGFORD.

Our party consisted of Gen. Henry D. Washburn, Cornelius Hedges, Samuel T. Hauser, Warren C. Gillette, Benjamin Stickney, Truman C. Everts, Walter Trumbull, Jacob Smith and Nathaniel P. Langford.

The first relief was Hedges and Langford, the second Washburn and Hauser.

COPY OF THE ORIGINAL OUTLINE SKETCHED BY NATHANIEL P. LANGFORD FROM THE TOP OF MOUNT LANGFORD, SEPT. 7, 1870, AND COMPLETED SEPT. 10 AND 13.]

COPY OF THE ORIGINAL OUTLINE SKETCHED BY NATHANIEL P. LANGFORD FROM THE TOP OF MOUNT LANGFORD, SEPT. 7, 1870, AND COMPLETED SEPT. 10 AND 13.]

[Illustration: Nathaniel P. Langford]

R69256, 27Oct50, Elsie Bambridge (C) LANGFORD, George.

R71676, 14Dec50, South Eastern Province Guardian Loan & Investment Co. (E) STORIES OF THE FIRST AMERICAN ANIMALS, by George Langford; illus.

R67283, 18Sep50, George Langford (A) THE STORY OF A BAD BOY, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; illustrated by Harold M. Brett.

R71676, 14Dec50, South Eastern Province Guardian Loan & Investment Co. (E) STORIES OF THE FIRST AMERICAN ANIMALS, by George Langford; illus.

R67283, 18Sep50, George Langford (A) THE STORY OF A BAD BOY, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; illustrated by Harold M. Brett.