Part 31 (2/2)
_Miller Creek_--G : 13--1880--Norris--For a mountaineer named Miller.
See ”Calfee Creek.”
_Mink Creek_--T : 11--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Mist Creek_--I : 14--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Moose Creek_--N : 6--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Moss Creek_--G : 10--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Mountain Creek_--P : 13--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Mountain Ash Creek_--R : 3--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Nez Perce Creek_ (7,237)--J : 4--1878--U. S. G. S.--The Nez Perce Indians pa.s.sed up this stream on their raid through the Park in 1877.
It had previously been called ”East Fork of the Firehole.” Prof.
Bradley, of the U. S. Geological Survey, christened it Hayden's Fork in 1872. (See Chapter XIII, Part I.)
_Obsidian Creek_--E : 6--1879--Norris--Characteristic.
_Opal Creek_--E : 12--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Otter Creek_--H : 8--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Outlet Creek_--P : 9--1895--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Owl Creek_--T : 5--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Pacific Creek_--W : 11--1873--Jones--Flows from Two-Ocean Pa.s.s down the Pacific slope.
_Panther Creek_--D : 5--1878--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Pebble Creek_--D : 13--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Pelican Creek_--K : 10--Probably named by the Washburn Party in 1870.
Hayden and Barlow, in 1871, use the name as though it were already a fixture. Mr. Hedges says of this stream:
”About the mouth of the little stream that we had just crossed were numerous shallows and bars, which were covered by the acre with ducks, geese, huge white-breasted cranes, and long-beaked pelicans, while the solitary albatross, or sea-gull, circled above our heads with a saucy look that drew many a random shot, and cost one, at least, its life.”
_Phlox Creek_--Q : 13--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Plateau Creek_--C : 12--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Polecat Creek_--S : 6--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
_Quartz Creek_--E : 10--1885--U. S. G. S.--Characteristic.
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