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In the late 1830s, an adventurous trapper by the name of Osborne Russell dropped into Lamar Valley, in what is now Yellowstone National Park, during one of his epic rambles and called it "The Secluded Valley". He returned to the Valley several times after that, and in his journals, he remarked on the wild and beautiful nature of the high country meadows and ridges. From his journal: "There is something in the wild and romantic scenery of this valley which I cannot nor will I, attempt to describe but the impressions made upon my mind while gazing from a high eminence on the surrounding landscape one evening as the sun was gently gliding behind the western mountain and casting its gigantic shadows across the vale were such as time can never efface from my memory, but as I am neither Poet, Painter, or Romance writer I must content myself to be what I am - a humble journalist and leave this beautiful Vale in obscurity until visited by some more skillful admirer of the beauties of nautre who may chance to stroll this way at some future period." To that, I can only add, Amen! |
