Up The River To The Lake
Paul Harness reading from Albert Peale's Journal, Undine Falls (up the river) [3]
Friday, July 28, 1871, from Albert Peale's journal: "As I write now, the moon is shining brightly and is reflected from the surface of the water, which is now considerably quieter, the wind having gone down. The lake is 9,000 feet above the sea." [4]
Paul Harness reading from Albert Peale's Journal [5]
Report No. 7: Ferdinand Hayden to Spencer Baird, Yellow Stone Lake, WY; August 8th, 1871: Henry Elliott and Mr. Carringto have just left in our little Boat, the "Annie," while I am writing to you, to be absent several days. [Elliott will] make a systematic sketch of the shore with all its indentations, with the banks down, indeed, making a complete topographical as well as a pictorial sketch of the shores as seen from the water, for a circuit--of at least 130 miles. He will also make soundings, at various points." [6]
From Hayden's Preliminary Report to Congress ""Our little bark * * * was named by Mr. Stevenson in compliment to Miss Anna L. Dawes, the amiable daughter of Hon. H. L. Dawes. My whole party were glad to manifest, by this slight tribute, their gratitude to this distinguished statesman, whose generous sympathy and aid had contributed so much toward securing the appropriation which enable them to explore this marvelous region." [8]
Paul Harness reading from Albert Peale's Journal [9]
"The name of the boat first appeared as Annie, but in later woodcut engravings done after the survey the name became Anna. The engraving used as an illustration in Hayden's published report) was based on Jackson's photograph of the boat, on which the name Annie appears to have been added later by hand. In his report Hayden claimed that Stevenson named the boat for Anna Dawes, daughter of the 'Hon. H. L. Dawes. . . [who] had contributed so much toward securing the appropriation which allowed [us] to explore this marvelous region.' Not mentioned was the fact that Anna Dawes was also the sister of survey member Chester Dawes, who is pictured with Stephenson in the boat. Robert Adams, however, wrote a report to the Philadelphia Inquirer at the time of the boat's launching, saying that the boat was named 'Annie' and that 'no one knew for whom it was named.' Thus, perhaps Annie was initially named in fun for Chester Dawes's sister (the party bestowed other place-names for sisters and sweethearts; for instance, 'Mary Bay') and Hayden only later recognized the political potential of formally honoring Henry Dawes's daughter. The change to Anna may have come about because Annie seemed too familiar a name for a prominent congressman's daughter." --Marlene Merrill [10]
- "U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library," U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, 1871, section goes here, accessed November 21, 2012, http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/show_picture.cgi?ID=ID.%20Jackson,%20W.H.%20%20243
- "Undine Falls", Yellowstone National Park, personal photograph by author, October 2012.
- Marlene Merrill, ed., Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 141.
- Marlene Merrill, 151.
- Ibid., 153.
- Ibid., 133.
- "U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library," U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library, 1871, accessed November 21, 2012, Photo by W. H. Jackson, http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/htmllib/btch508/btch508j/btch508z/btch508/jwh273v3.jpg
- F. V. Hayden, Preliminary Report of The United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; Being A Fifth Annual Report of Progress (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872).
- Merrill, 163.
- Merrill, 264.
- Yellowstone's Photo Collection, Yellowstone National Park Archives, Yellowstone National Park, accessed February 7, 2013, http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/index.htm.