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PAWNEE BILL'S FAR EAST

the Park from that station necessitated a hundred-mile journey by stage, no railroad being permitted to pass its boundary lines. This state of affairs, as Col. Cody vigorously insisted virtually transformed the Park into rich man's scenic paradise, which it was as impossible for those of limited and even ordinary means, when hailing from states to the south of it, to reach and enjoy as it would be for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. In fact, for all practical purposes is was as distant from them

ON ONE OF THE CODY CATTLE RANGES

as the planet Mars, until Col. Cody's enterprise induced The Burlington Railroad to run a branch line down through the valley of

THE CITY OF CODY, WYOMING (Named in Honor of its Founder)

Shoshone to Cody, which is located but forty miles from the southeast corner of the Park. It is here that the Government Reclamation Service has just completed the highest dam in the world, with total height of 328.4 feet; 175 feet in length and 108 feet wide at the bottom, completely blocking the great gorge and forming a reservoir or lake with a surface of over ten square miles and irrigation supply sufficient for more than 100,000 acres of land in the Big Horn Basin. The general Government co-operated with the county authorities at Cody in building a splendid wagon road from the town to the Park and on to the foot of Yellowstone Lake situated therein, through the most varied, transcendently beautiful and awe-inspiring scenery, of which description can convey, no adequate conception, well worth a journey round the globe to look upon, and at the threshold of which one may land in a palace car, via the "Great Burlington Route" from every section of the country.

THE HIGHEST DAM IN THE WORLD

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