Yellowstone National Park is one of the earth’s most famous places. Established in 1872 as the world’s first national park, it has preserved remarkable natural wonders like Old Faithful Geyser and cultural icons such as Old Faithful Inn. For centuries, it was home to the Shoshone, Crow, Bannock, Blackfeet, and other Indian tribes, but these groups were banished in the 1870s by park promoters who feared that tourists would not visit if American Indians lived there. Almost immediately after its establishment, Yellowstone became the primary destination for tourist travel to the American West following the Civil War. By 1900, it was a vast tourist success, and today it is both a world biosphere preserve and a world heritage site.

Yellowstone National Park (Images of America: Wyoming)

History

Whittlesey, Lee H.

Watry, Elizabeth A.

Americas

Arcadia Publishing

On August 17, 1886, Capt. Moses Harris and the troops of Company M rode into Yellowstone to take over guardianship of America’s first national park. Receiving orders thereupon that the company was staying indefinitely, Captain Harris ordered the construction of Camp Sheridan. Seeing no end in sight for this “temporary” duty, the US War Department established Fort Yellowstone in 1891. For 32 years, ceremonial splendor of the US Army filled this era of Yellowstone with booming cannons at sunrise and sunset, crackling rifle-range practices, flashing saber drills, exacting military maneuvers, and dashing dress parades led by the regimental band. With the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, the Army began a two-year administrative transition and formally abandoned Fort Yellowstone in October 1918.

Fort Yellowstone (Images of America)

Long before snowmobiles, paved roads, and SUVs were introduced into Yellowstone National Park, a myriad of companies offered buggy and stage rides through the Park, with their drivers telling stories to their passengers. Some of these stories had no basis in fact, especially those attributed to "Indian legends," but others came from the early trappers and fur traders and were as informational as they were entertaining.Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone National Park historian, has devoted years of research to these pre-1920 stories told by the Park's "tour guides," or interpreters. He includes the campfire stories of the traders and trappers, Yellowstone as it was portrayed in early photos and movies, the first group of Yellowstone guidebooks written, and the "fool tenderfoot questions" posed by the late nineteenth-century tourists. Whittlesey devotes chapters to the first two National Park interpreters, Philetus "Windy" Norris and G. L. Henderson. Each had his own style of delivery and each awed his respective tour groups. And, finally, there are the stagecoach drivers who chauffeured the public over Yellowstone's dirt roads and engaged their passengers with tales of the great Geyserland. Today's National Park Service has taken over the duties of the "horse and buggy tour guides" but private and concessioner tour guides also share Yellowstone National Park's many stories.All author proceeds from this book are being donated to the National Park Service.

Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides

University of New Mexico Press

In the early years of Yellowstone National Park, many companies offered buggy and stage rides through the park, their drivers telling stories to the passengers. Some had no basis in fact, especially those attributed to "Indian legends," but others came from the early trappers and fur traders and were informational as well as entertaining. Lee H. Whittlesey, former Yellowstone National Park historian, devoted years of research to these pre-1920 stories told by the Park's "tour guides," or interpreters. He includes the campfire stories of the traders and trappers, Yellowstone as it was portrayed in early photos and movies, the first Yellowstone guidebooks, and the "fool tenderfoot questions" posed by late nineteenth-century tourists. Whittlesey devotes chapters to the first two National Park interpreters, Philetus "Windy" Norris and G. L. Henderson. Each had his own delivery style and each awed his respective tour groups. Finally, there are the stagecoach drivers who chauffeured the public over Yellowstone's dirt roads and regaled their passengers with tales of the great Geyserland. Today, National Park Service, private, and concessioner tour guides have taken over the duties of these early guides, sharing Yellowstone National Park's many stories. All author proceeds from this book are being donated to the National Park Service.

Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park and a place of spectacular natural wonders, is a fantastic and surprising landscape of names. Since the time of the fur trappers, who called it the place "where hell bubbled up," names have bee laid down on Yellowstone. Rivers, mountains, creeks, hot springs, lakes, and valleys in the Park have been named after famous and not-so-famous personalities, after wildly imaginative images suggested by thermal features, and after the flora and fauna of this magnificent region. The list of place names in this book is at once a guide to the Park, a complementary on unique places, and a capsule history of Yellowstone. After 12 years of intensive research, author Lee H. Whittlesey has written Yellowstone Place Names, the first book of its kind to be published. Digging his facts out of government records, tourist narratives, old guidebooks, and newspaper articles, Whittlesey introduces us to the fascinating histories of more than 650 place names. You can discover how places received their names, who named them, why they were named, and their anecdotal histories. You can find out who named Old Faithful and why, who first floated a boat on Yellowstone Lake, and why places such as Roaring Mountain and Handkerchief Pool got their names. Illustrated with reference maps and historical photographs, Yellowstone Place Names is a book that will introduce everyone-even those who know the Park well-to a Yellowstone they have not seen before.

Yellowstone place names (A Montana Historical Society guide)

UNKNO

Yellowstone National Park (French version) (Images of America) (French and English Edition)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

El Parque Nacional de Yellowstone es uno de los lugares más conocidos en el mundo. Fundado en 1872 como el primer parque nacional en el mundo, ha logrado preservar maravillas como el géiser Old Faithful e iconos culturales como el hotel Old Faithful Inn. Durante varios siglos fue el hogar de los shoshones, crow, bannock, pies negros y otras tribus indias. Sin embargo, estos grupos fueron desterrados durante la década de 1870 por los propietarios del parque, que temían que no hubiera afluencia de turistas debido a los indios americanos que vivían allí. Casi inmediatamente después de su fundación, Yellowstone se convirtió en el destino principal para viajes turísticos al oeste de los Estados Unidos tras la Guerra de Secesión. En 1900 era todo un éxito turístico, y actualmente ha sido declarado una reserva de la biosfera y patrimonio de la humanidad.

Yellowstone National Park (Spanish version) (Images of America) (Spanish and English Edition)

By 1883 when the rail lines of the Northern Pacific reached the tiny town of Cinnabar, Montana Territory, newspaper and magazine stories of the wonders to be found in Yellowstone National Park had been firing the imaginations of eager potential visitors around the world for a decade. Once the railroad completed that critical bit of their route, the world was poised to actually see the magic of Yellowstone, and the prospect of a trip was no longer just exciting—it was a possibility. It seemed like everyone who could afford the ticket—from middle class residents of New York City to Army Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan to President Chester A. Arthur—wanted to ride the train to see Yellowstone . Their jumping off point for their journey into “Wonderland” was the town envisioned by Hugo Hoppe, a raucous Wild West town poised for greatness as the Gateway to all of Yellowstone’s offerings. The town of Cinnabar, Montana, no longer exists, but when it did, it served as the immediate railroad gateway for a generation of visitors to Yellowstone National Park. Visitors passed through its streets from September 1, 1883, through June 15, 1903 This book tells the story of its place in the West, and the legend of the town and its promoters. Its story is one of aspiration and dreams in the American West and its place in the legend and lore of Yellowstone has kept the spirit of Cinnabar alive for more than a hundred years since the town itself faded away.

Gateway to Yellowstone: The Raucous Town of Cinnabar on the Montana Frontier

Whittlesey, Lee

TwoDot

The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the 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 these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Lee H. Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly-from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park.

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Tantor Audio

Tantor Media, Inc.

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Yellowstone National Park (Images of America: Wyoming)

Fort Yellowstone (Images of America)

Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides

Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides

Yellowstone place names (A Montana Historical Society guide)

Yellowstone National Park (French version) (Images of America) (French and English Edition)

Yellowstone National Park (Spanish version) (Images of America) (Spanish and English Edition)

Gateway to Yellowstone: The Raucous Town of Cinnabar on the Montana Frontier

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park