Cinnabar
Yellowstone
National Park History: Before 1903,
trains would bring visitors to Cinnabar, Montana, which was
a few miles northwest of Gardiner, Montana ...
A view from 1939: The DEVIL'S SLIDE, 51 m., an exposed dike of
bright-red iron-impregnated rock on Cinnabar Mountain, is (R)
across the river. The mountain was named by early settlers
who thought the red rock was cinnabar. The legend of the Devil's
Slide is told in a jingle:
"
Ages ago, one can easily see, Old Yellowstone Valley went on
a spree; The mountains had risen, the valleys had sunk, And
old Mother Nature got roaringly drunk. The Devil, as drunk
as the Devil would be, Slid to the bottom of Cinnabaree."
Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written
by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration
for the State of Montana; September, 1939.
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