Obsidian Cliff

Yeah.

Obsidian cliff or, you know, I mean, there's other, you know, there's the Park Point obsidian.

There's the other types of obsidian.

Yeah.

And they have found obsidian points in Florida, right? I mean so that's how far and wide their trade was.

And so I thought that was really interesting.

Yeah, I've heard – I mean I think the one I hear about is the mounds in Ohio where they found like thousands of points from Obsidian Cliff.

Right.

Knowing Yellowstone held petrified wood, he deadpanned descriptions of entire forests where petrified birds sat singing petrified songs.

Drawing on the massive volcanic glass formation at Obsidian Cliff, he claimed to have discovered a mountain of transparent glass that functioned like a gigantic telescope lens.

In Bridger's telling, this lens explained why he had once wasted several rifle balls firing at an enormous bull elk, only to realise the animal was grazing 25 miles away on the opposite side of the mountain.

He also swore he could catch a trout in a freezing alpine stream and swing the line directly into an adjacent boiling spring to haul the fish out fully cooked, or that certain mountain creeks raced down steep slopes so fast that sheer friction heated the water.