Download or read book Myths and Legends of Yellowstone written by Ednor Therriault and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's first designated national park, Yellowstone is famous for its steaming geysers, bubbling mud pots, and wildlife-caused traffic jams. But few people may know about the many Native American tribes that visited the area long before John Colter "discovered" it, how one man nearly decimated the park's bison population, or the strange music that emanates from Yellowstone Lake. Each episode included in this book explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Yellowstone National Park’s history. From rumors of ghosts in the iconic Old Faithful Inn to Bigfoot sightings throughout the park, Myths and Legends of Yellowstone makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of this national treasure's most fascinating and compelling stories.
Download or read book Yellowstone s Hot Legends and Cool Myths written by Robert Rath and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten of Yellowstone National Park's folkloric tales are presented in graphic novel format.
Download or read book Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park written by Paul Schullery and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does a beloved institution need its own myths to survive? Can conservationists avoid turning their heroes into legends? Should they try? Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society’s vision seemed focused on only greed and growth. Perhaps that is why the park’s “creation myth” portrayed a few saintlike pioneer conservationists laboring to set aside this unique wilderness against all odds. In fact, the establishment of Yellowstone was the result of complex social, scientific, economic, and aesthetic forces. Its creators were not saints but mortal humans with the full range of ideals and impulses known to the species. Authors Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey, both longtime students of Yellowstone’s complex history, present the first full account of how the fairy tale origins of the park found universal public acceptance and the long, painful process by which the myth was reconsidered and replaced with a more realistic and ultimately more satisfying story. In this evocative exploration of Yellowstone’s creation myth, the authors trace the evolution of the legend, its rise to incontrovertible truth, and its revelation as a mysterious and troubling episode that remains part folklore, part wish, and part history. This study demonstrates the passions stirred by any challenge to cherished national memories, just as it honors the ideals and dreams represented by our national myths.
Download or read book Yellowstone Ghost Stories written by Shellie Larios and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellowstone National Park is haunted—or is it? You’ll think so after reading all the spooky tales in this book, including a little lost boy who appears and disappears among crowds of tourists, a headless bride at Old Faithful Inn, and various other ghostly spirits, mysterious sounds, and strange apparitions. This is a great book to read late at night around your campfire—if you dare!
Download or read book Yellowstone Legends written by Peggy L Henderson and published by Peggy L Henderson. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of Yellowstone is in their hands . . . Detective Weda is a woman of today: smart, independent, and able to do anything she sets her mind to. Growing up on the Rez, she’s been taught about the traditions of her ancestors, but all she wants is to live in the modern world and escape the dreams that have haunted her since childhood. Just when she thinks she’s broken free from her past by starting a new life in New York, people close to her die and the dreams return… Wo’itsa has always been content with his role as a hunter of the Tukudeka. A confusing vision reveals images of the past as well as an uncertain future, leaving his ordinary life in turmoil. When a mysterious elder of the Sky People approaches him and offers answers, Wo’itsa is more than eager to help pave the way for generations to come. But something doesn’t seem quite right . . . When a woman from the twenty-first century and a hunter from the 1700’s are thrown together in the most unlikely circumstance, there is sure to be mistrust, miscommunication, and mistaken identity. Tensions build when their paths repeatedly intersect as they race through time to secure the future of the sacred mountains in what is to become Yellowstone National Park. What will it take for them to let down their guards and see clearly the true enemy that is determined to keep them apart? ***Content warning: This book contains mild language, mild violence, and intimacy between consenting adults. Heat rating 3 out of 5, PG13 ***While Yellowstone Legends is a complete romance between the two central characters in this story, this is not a standalone novel. The plot is complex and encompasses the entire Yellowstone Romance Series, tying all of the stories and characters together. Yellowstone Romance Series (in recommended reading order) Yellowstone Heart Song Return to Yellowstone (Sequel to Yellowstone Heart Song) Yellowstone Vows (short story) A Yellowstone Christmas Yellowstone Redemption Yellowstone Reflections Yellowstone Homecoming Yellowstone Love Notes (short story) Yellowstone Season of Giving (short Story) Yellowstone Awakening Yellowstone Dawn Yellowstone Deception A Yellowstone Promise Yellowstone Origins Yellowstone Legacy Yellowstone Legends Related Series: Teton Romance Series Teton Sunrise Teton Splendor Teton Sunset Teton Season of Joy Teton Season of Promise Wilderness Brides Series Cora’s Pride Anna’s Heart Caroline’s Passion
Download or read book Adventures in Yellowstone written by M. Mark Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After its establishment in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was sufficiently famous that numerous people risked bear maulings, Indian attacks, and geyser burns just to glimpse its wonders. A surprising number of those who survived wrote about their adventures. The best of these stories are collected in Adventures in Yellowstone. Presenting a dozen narratives—journal entries, letters, and diaries—with an introduction to each, and with historic photographs, postcards, and woodcuts, this book is the essential compilation of the most gripping first-person accounts of the early years of America’s most cherished national park.
Download or read book The Stories of Yellowstone written by Mark M. Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the time period from 1807, when John Colter first discovered the wonders of the Yellowstone Plateau to the 1920s when tourists sped between luxury hotels in their automobiles, these tales of Wonderland come from the letters, journals, and diaries kept by early visitors and later tourists. The earliest stories recount mountain men’s awe at geysers hurling boiling water hundreds of feet into the air and their encounters with the native inhabitants of the region. The latest stories reflect the “civilizing” of the park and reveal the golden age of tourist travel in the area.
Download or read book Spooky Yellowstone written by S. E. Schlosser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Yellowstone National Park!
Download or read book Empire of Shadows written by George Black and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you'll never think of our first—in many ways our greatest—national park in the same way again." —Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts its course through the lives of those who sought to lay bare its mysteries: Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a gifted but tormented cavalryman known as "the man who invented Wonderland"; the ambitious former vigilante leader Nathaniel Langford; scientist Ferdinand Hayden, who brought photographer William Henry Jackson and painter Thomas Moran to Yellowstone; and Gen. Phil Sheridan, Civil War hero and architect of the Indian Wars, who finally succeeded in having the new National Park placed under the protection of the US Cavalry. George Black1s Empire of Shadows is a groundbreaking historical account of the origins of America1s majestic national landmark.
Download or read book Women in Wonderland written by Elizabeth A. Watry and published by Riverbend. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Betsy Watry tells the tales of a dozen women, some of whom had short-lived adventures in Yellowstone National Park, but most of whom spent decades as rangers, scientists, interpreters, and entrepreneurs, shaping the Park's physical and cultural landscape. This is a wonderful 'hidden' history, full of surprising stories, grounded in intensive research and written with charm." --Dr. Mary Murphy, historian and author of Hope in Hard Times "For so long, Yellowstone National Park has needed a book about the women who stood and today stand tall in its history. At long last, Elizabeth Watry has produced it. Women across the nation should celebrate this book for its noteworthy contribution to women's history, as we professional historians do." Lee Whittlesey, Park Historian, National Park Service, --Yellowstone National Park "To read about Yellowstone National Park too often means viewing it through the eyes and exploits of men. By sharing the experiences and contributions of women who visited, lived, and worked in Yellowstone, Elizabeth Watry places women front and center in the Park's wondrous history. Women in Wonderland is sure to become a treasured resource." --Diane Smith, author of Letters from Yellowstone
Download or read book Yellowstone s Creation Myth written by Paul Schullery and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused the creation of Yellowstone National Park? According to an immensely popular tradition, as presented in countless publications and public speeches during the past 75 years, the idea for Yellowstone National Park originated with one man on a specific day. --First paragraph.
Download or read book Women in Wonderland written by Elizabeth A Watry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Betsy Watry tells the tales of a dozen women, some of whom had short-lived adventures in Yellowstone National Park, but most of whom spent decades as rangers, scientists, interpreters, and entrepreneurs, shaping the Park’s physical and cultural landscape. This is a wonderful ‘hidden’ history, full of surprising stories, grounded in intensive research and written with charm.” —Dr. Mary Murphy, historian and author of Hope in Hard Times “For so long, Yellowstone National Park has needed a book about the women who stood and today stand tall in its history. At long last, Elizabeth Watry has produced it. Women across the nation should celebrate this book for its noteworthy contribution to women’s history, as we professional historians do.” Lee Whittlesey, Park Historian, National Park Service, —Yellowstone National Park “To read about Yellowstone National Park too often means viewing it through the eyes and exploits of men. By sharing the experiences and contributions of women who visited, lived, and worked in Yellowstone, Elizabeth Watry places women front and center in the Park’s wondrous history. Women in Wonderland is sure to become a treasured resource.” —Diane Smith, author of Letters from Yellowstone
Download or read book Behind the Legend of Colter s Hell written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scorched Earth written by Rocky Barker and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, forest fires raged in Yellowstone National Park, destroying more than a million acres. As the nation watched the land around Old Faithful burn, a longstanding conflict over fire management reached a fever pitch. Should the U.S. Park and Forest Services suppress fires immediately or allow some to run their natural course? When should firefighters be sent to battle the flames and at what cost? In Scorched Earth, Barker, an environmental reporter who was on the ground and in the smoke during the 1988 fires, shows us that many of today's arguments over fire and the nature of public land began to take shape soon after the Civil War. As Barker explains, how the government responded to early fires in Yellowstone and to private investors in the region led ultimately to the protection of 600 million acres of public lands in the United States. Barker uses his considerable narrative talents to bring to life a fascinating, but often neglected, piece of American history. Scorched Earth lays a new foundation for examining current fire and environmental policies in America and the world. Our story begins when the West was yet to be won, with a colorful cast of characters: a civil war general and his soldiers, America's first investment banker, railroad men, naturalists, and fire-fighters-all of whom left their mark on Yellowstone. As the truth behind the creation of America's first national park is revealed, we discover the remarkable role the U.S. Army played in protecting Yellowstone and shaping public lands in the West. And we see the developing efforts of conservation's great figures as they struggled to preserve our heritage. With vivid descriptions of the famous fires that have raged in Yellowstone, the heroes who have tried to protect it, and the strategies that evolved as a result, Barker draws us into the very heart of a debate over our attempts to control nature and people. This entertaining and timely book challenges the traditional views both of those who arrogantly seek full control of nature and those who naively believe we can leave it unaltered. And it demonstrates how much of our broader environmental history was shaped in the lands of Yellowstone.
Download or read book Legend of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone written by Harry Clifton Reagan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rediscovering Wonderland written by M. Mark Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century people could gain fame and fortune by “discovering” and documenting things that were already known to exist like the source of the Nile and the North Pole. For decades trappers and prospectors had told about the wonders of the area that became Yellowstone Park, but no credible person had written about the falls, canyons, and geysers there. An ambitious politician, Nathaniel P. Langford, decided to make his name by promoting an expedition and publicizing its activities in 1870. An army lieutenant named Gustavus Doane maneuvered to lead the expedition’s army escort for the same reason. Their written accounts of the big “discovery” of Wonderland were the basis for the park’s founding in 1872. Rediscovering Wonderland brings together the words of these men, along with images of the expedition, to provide historical context for the exploration and founding of America’s first national park.
Download or read book Yellowstone Reflections written by Peggy L Henderson and published by Peggy L Henderson. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 35,000 word companion novella to Yellowstone Redemption Chase Russell knows where he belongs. Both his heart and his mind will forever be with the woman he loves. Before he settles down, he must prove to himself that, despite being a novice time traveler from the 21st century, he can make it on his own in the Yellowstone wilderness of 1835. Confident he will learn everything he needs to know from his trusted companion Elk Runner, Chase is surprised to discover through a vision that it is actually others who put their confidence in him. When he is abruptly left completely isolated in an unfamiliar vastness, he must dig deep within himself to find what it takes to survive and return to Sarah, his only reason for living. Other Titles in the Yellowstone Romance Series (in Recommended Reading Order) Yellowstone Heart Song Return to Yellowstone (Sequel to Yellowstone Heart Song) Yellowstone Vows (short story) A Yellowstone Christmas Yellowstone Redemption Yellowstone Reflections Yellowstone Homecoming Yellowstone Love Notes (short story) Yellowstone Season of Giving (short Story) Yellowstone Awakening Yellowstone Dawn Yellowstone Deception A Yellowstone Promise Yellowstone Origins Yellowstone Legacy Yellowstone Legends Related books and Series Teton Romance Trilogy Teton Sunrise Teton Splendor Teton Sunset Teton Season of Joy Teton Season of Promise Wilderness Brides Series Cora’s Pride Anna’s Heart Caroline’s Passion Josie’s Valor (coming soon)
