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Emigrant
 Emigrant is on the Yellowstone River halfway between Livingston and Gardiner. It gets its name because the town is at the base of a mountain range containing Emigrant Peak, which rises to an altitude of 10,960 feet. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) An emigrant is someone who leaves one country to settle in another. Paradise Valley, in which Emigrant is situated, was dotted with cabins, saloons, general stores, and river crossings built by prospectors by the 1860s hoping to strike it rich.Thomas Curry discovered gold in Emigrant Gulch in 1862. Early trappers and prospectors bathed in crude vats built around a natural hot springs here. Emigrant trains arriving near the narrow entrance to the gulch in 1864 found a lone pine tree in which eighteen or twenty elk horn had been embedded. Jim Bridger, a famous scout and guide who worked for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, and built Fort Bridger in 1842, asserted that he had placed them there 25 years earlier. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company) Emigrant offers plenty of fishing opportunities along the Yellowstone River as well as camping, fishing, and boating at the nearby Dailey Lake. Yellowstone Park is just south of Emigrant. It is the world's first National Park, also the largest in the United States. Yellowstone contains more than 2.2 million acres of steaming geysers, thundering waterfalls, crystalline lakes, and panoramic vistas. It has the world's most extensive area of geyser activity, harboring more than 10,000 thermal features. Near Emigrant one also finds Chico Hot Springs. Chico Hot Springs Resort and Day Spa offers the quintessential Montana experience. Established in 1900 and on the National Historic Register, Chico is a year-round destination resort offering lodging, fine dining, a full day spa, and a natural hot springs pool. Here you can enjoy hiking, fishing, horseback riding, mountain biking, dog sledding and cross-country skiing.
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