With more than 10,000 geysers, hot springs, fumaroles, and mud pots, as well as cubic mile upon cubic mile of once-incendiary rhyolite, the landscape of Yellowstone Country vividly displays its fiery past and present. The region contains 1/5 of the world's geysers, including the most famous of them all, and is the setting of some of Earth's most destructive volcanic eruptions. The 19 road guides in Roadside Geology of Yellowstone Country fully explore this volcanic pedigree

while also delivering you to sites that have recorded the region's broadand deep geologic story, which includes exquisitely preserved, 50-million-year-old petrified trees buried in conglomerate; mountain-sized blocks of rock that slid more than 50 miles in a massive debris avalanche; the glacially carved craggy peaks and U-shaped valleys of the Beartooth Mountains and Absaroka Range; and the Grand

Canyon of the Yellowstone, the excavation of which is

still a mystery.

Locked away in his citadel prison for 300 years, Hafram has stumbled across an ally, the only person who has been able to accept his thoughts through the crude but powerful shield holding him prisoner. Knowing that his opportunities are dwindling and his magics were beginning to fade with age, he realizes he must protect his new charge at all costs. Weaving an intricate spell he gives Aethan a protector, a powerful mountain cat that draws it's life force from his own. His task has begun anew and he vows that the shackles from Darthune shall be thrown from the throne of Euwold as the hunt for the White Staff begins again.