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The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the
sometimes gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our
national parks, this updated edition of a classic includes
calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including
the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011, as well as
a fatal hot springs accident in 2000 in which the Park Service was
sued for negligence.
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Fort Yellowstone (Hardcover)
Elizabeth A. Watry, Lee H Whittlesey
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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.
In 1870, Truman Everts visited what would two years later become
Yellowstone National Park, traveling with an exploration party
intent on mapping and investigating that mysterious region.
Scattered reports of a mostly unexplored wilderness filled with
natural wonders had caught the public's attention and the
fifty-four-year-old Everts, nearsighted and an inexperienced
woodsman, had determined to join the expedition. He was soon
separated from the rest of the party and from his horse, setting
him on a grueling quest for survival. For over a month he wandered
Yellowstone alone and injured, with little food, clothing, or other
equipment. In "Thirty-seven Days of Peril" he recounted his
experiences for the readers of Scribner's Monthly. In June 1996,
Everts's granddaughter arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs in
Yellowstone National Park to meet with park archivist Lee
Whittlesey. She brought two documents that her father had kept
hidden and both were handwritten by Everts. One was a brief
auto-biography that gave new insight into his early life. The other
was a never-published alternative account of his confused 1870
journey through Yellowstone. Both have been added to this volume,
further enhancing Everts's unlikely tale of survival.
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