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Ho! For Wonderland - Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914 (Hardcover)
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Ho! For Wonderland - Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914 (Hardcover)
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Since it became the world's first national park in 1872,
Yellowstone has welcomed tourists from all corners of the globe who
returned to their hometowns and countries with reports of this
American wonderland. Stories from the park's earliest visitors
began to spread so rapidly that by 1897 Yellowstone became solidly
established as a successful tourist destination with more than ten
thousand tourists passing through its entrances.
Travelers in the park's first years faced long, dusty, and
tediously slow stagecoach trips and could choose only between
rather primitive hotels and tent camps for their overnight
accommodations. Devoured by nineteenth-century readers, many of the
narratives from this era are long forgotten today and are only
gradually being recovered from historical archives. Park historians
Lee Whittlesey and Elizabeth Watry have combed thousands of
firsthand accounts, selecting nineteen tales that offer unique and
engaging perspectives of visitors during Yellowstone's stagecoach
era. From an 1873 newspaper serial that represents one of the
earliest park's recorded trips to the 1914 "Little Journey" that
popular writer Elbert Hubbard took with his wife Alice, the
chronicles included here reveal the enduring captivation that
Yellowstone held in the popular imagination, as it does today.
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