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CLOSE-UP: Glover's between cash and those who need it. See page 3B SECTION JACKSON HOLE NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1993 E0 Teton Style 1WLE Ferdinand V. Hayden did his best scientific work during the Raynolds expedition in 1859-60 for this geologic map. The survey targeted but missed Yellowstone. Hayden returned to lead the first federal surveys into Yellowstone and earned fame for Lis "discoveries." They'll eat you for your shirt With tourists streaming back to Yellowstone, the news is filled again by unpleasant encounters between man and nature.

No, we are not talking about the disturbing problems we've had in recent years with wildflowers, though, now that you've brought it up, I should repeat the standard warning. For some reason the tourists never hear that first word they hear "flowers" and think of the domestic, calm, harmless blooms they have in their safe, police-patrolled suburban yards, flowers that would never hurt anyone. For some reason people never hear the word "wild," and if they do they never take it to heart. The result, every year, is a series of bloody meetings, including last July's unfortunate lupine mauling of a busload of Koreans on a golf vacation. Other incidents are even more terrible because they involve people we actually care about.

So, if you are a tourist, even a Korean golfer, please remember that while an arrowleaf balsamroot appears clumsy and docile, in seconds it can accelerate to 40 mph over a distance typically just about as far as the distance between you and your car. Also remember that fireweed has four-inch claws concealed under its leaves, and that columbine can shoot its poison darts about 50 yards. And that Indian paintbrush, the Continued on page 10B Growth and acts of nature are twisting the dragon's tail. See Far Afield 2B Ico cream lovers have plenty to choose from in Jackson. See Sound Bites 4B Gardening 5B Obituaries 8B PeopleQuestion 9B Support OB Legal Notices 1 1B West 120 ycaM cujo.

the beginning Jackson Hole was where cartographers placed their "cartouche" the title I) Clark's trip over the Continental Divide in 1804 and ending with Ferdinand Hayden's surveys of Yellowstone National Park that concluded in 1878. Venturing into terra incognita last week to explain the exploration and mapping of the West, Ralph Ehrenberg, chief of the Geography and Maps Division of the Library of Congress, followed a long tradition of explorers. He brought along a native guide valley resident Bill Resor to help teach his course at the Snake River Institute. "What's interesting is trying to get into the minds of the people doing the exploration Continued on page 6B block on their maps of North America. This strategic location balanced the presentation of the wide continent by covering an embarrassing blank spot in the center of the New World.

Although American Indians knew their way through the maze of mountains and rivers that made up the continent's backbone, to Euro-Americans the West was terra incognita unknown land. They pieced together the puzzle over about 75 years, beginning just before Lewis and Hayden was drawn by J. Hudson Snowden while on the Raynolds expedition which tried, but failed, to reach Yellowstone. BY ANGUS MTHUERMER.