Broke camp early and drove to Colonial Hotel on Lake Yellowstone. Did a little washing in the afternoon. Ethel and Mabel had a large wash. Stopped at store and had some root beer, bought some post cards. Sandy, Jack and George went fishing--had fine luck. In evening while Jack and George were eating supper two bears visited our camp, but they were very tame and ate out of the plates. Ethel, Jim and George went boating on the lake. Mabel fell over tent rope while going to bed, hurt herself quite badly and made her sick.
(The hotel on Lake Yellowstone was formerly known as the Colonial Hotel.)
Recollections of Ollie Kurtz:
Out of West Yellowstone a few miles into the park, they had the horses in the edge of the timber feeding on the grass. Dad walked out to check the horses and he couldn't see them, but their tracks were leading away from camp. Dad hollered at Jim (his horse), he heard someone whistle and the horse came back to him. He thought someone was trying to steal the horses, but hadn't got the hobbles off of them, as one hobble was cut or broken. Someone had told Dad that they would steak horses up here and take them to Jackson, Wyoming and sell them.
Lulu and Oliver Kurtz
From the background, this may have been at the Oliver Kurtz farm
Bertha Fjelsted Kurtz
Oliver Kurtz
Bertha and Oliver married in 1902 in Dillon, Montana
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