Editing Old Faithful (section)

==History==
In the afternoon of September 18, 1870, the members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition traveled down the [[Firehole River]] from the [[Kepler Cascades]] and entered the [[Geothermal areas of Yellowstone#Upper Geyser Basin|Upper Geyser Basin]]. The first geyser that they saw was Old Faithful. [[Nathaniel P. Langford]] wrote in his 1871 Scribner's account of the expedition:

{{blockquote|It spouted at regular intervals nine times during our stay, the columns of boiling water being thrown from ninety to one hundred and twenty-five feet at each discharge, which lasted from fifteen to twenty minutes. We gave it the name of "Old Faithful."|Nathaniel P. Langford, 1871<ref>{{cite journal |last=Langford |first=Nathaniel P. |author-link=Nathaniel P. Langford |date=May–June 1871 |title=The Wonders of the Yellowstone |journal=Scribner's Monthly |volume=II |issue=1–2 |page=123}}</ref>}}

In the early days of the park, Old Faithful was often used as a laundry:
{{blockquote|Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place. [[Philip Sheridan|Gen. Sheridan]]'s men, in 1882, found that linen and cotton fabrics were uninjured by the action of the water, but woolen clothes were torn to shreds.<ref>{{cite book |last=Winser |first=Henry J. |title=The Yellowstone National Park-A Manual for Tourists |url=https://archive.org/details/yellowstonenati00winsgoog |location=New York |publisher=G.P. Putnam Sons |year=1883 |page=[https://archive.org/details/yellowstonenati00winsgoog/page/n75 46]}}</ref>}}