Dr. Hayden, who first visited this region the year following that of our
exploration, says of Lieutenant Doane's report:

I venture to state as my opinion, that for graphic description
and thrilling interest, it has not been surpassed
by any official report made to our government since the
times of Lewis and Clark.

Mr. Everts died at Hyattsville, Md., on the 16th day of February, 1901,
at the age of eighty-five, survived by his daughter, Elizabeth Everts
Verrill, and a young widow, and also a son nine years old, born when
Everts was seventy-six years of age,--a living monument to bear
testimony to that physical vigor and vitality which carried him through
the "Thirty-seven days of peril," when he was lost from our party in
the dense forest on the southwest shore of Yellowstone lake.

General Washburn died on January 26, 1871, his death being doubtless
hastened by the hardships and exposures of our journey, from which many
of our party suffered in greater or less degree.

In an eloquent eulogistic address delivered in Helena January 29, 1871,
Judge Cornelius Hedges said concerning the naming of Mount Washburn:

On the west bank of the Yellowstone, between Tower Fall
and Hell-broth springs, opposite the profoundest chasm
of that marvelous river cañon, a mighty sentinel overlooking
that region of wonders, rises in its serene and solitary
grandeur,--Mount Washburn,--pointing the way his enfranchised
spirit was so soon to soar. He was the first to