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Fort Yellowstone (Hardcover)
Elizabeth A. Watry, Lee H Whittlesey
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R842
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Discovery Miles 6 910
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Livingston (Hardcover)
Elizabeth A. Watry, Robert V Goss
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R842
R691
Discovery Miles 6 910
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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. Travellers 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.
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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