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  stanch, easy-riding, four-horse stage coaches. The roads are now in splendid shape, being sprinkled and maintained by the Government, and this coaching trip is undoubtedly the finest thing of the sort in the country and a most agreeable innovation and diversion for travelers.

There is a hotel, thoroughly modern, at each important place for sightseeing in the park. These hotels are all steam heated, electric lighted, and are supplied with barbers, bath, etc. Two of them, Old Faithful Inn at Upper geyser basin and the Colonial hotel at Yellowstone lake, are new and unusually attractive. The former is a wonderful structure of boulders and logs, the surprise and delight of all who enter its massive portals. It overlooks most of the large geysers and its fittings and appointments, including a search-light turned on the geysers each night, are in keeping with this wonderland. The Colonial hotel at the lake is a gem of its kind —a restful, reposeful, stately building overlooking Yellowstone lake and the Absaroka range of high mountains that frames it. At this point also is found unlimited trout fishing, free as the mountain air which the angler breathes. The whole park is a grand trout preserve with five or six different