firehole river fishing report Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/firehole-river-fishing-report Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:10:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 The Firehole River http://travelsfinders.com/the-firehole-river.html http://travelsfinders.com/the-firehole-river.html#respond Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=206837 Contrary to what you might think, the Firehole River did not get its name from the fact that hot springs and geysers adorn its banks for many miles and pour their hot waters into the stream. In the early 19 th century, hole was a word for a mountain-bound valley, and the Burnt Hole or Fire Hole was a burnt-over section of the Madison River Valley. Trappers (perhaps even the famous Jim Bridger) transferred the latter name to the river. Bridger is credited with having concocted the notion (not supported by scientists!) that the water flowed downhill here so fast

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