Ho! For Wonderland: Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914

by Lee H. Whittlesey (Editor), Elizabeth A. Watry (Editor), Schullery Paul (Foreword by)

Overview

These stories by early Yellowstone Park visitors helped propel the popularity of this American wonderland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826346179
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/2020
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lee H. Whittlesey is the former historian for Yellowstone National Park and the author or editor of numerous books including Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park; Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park; and A Yellowstone Album: a Photographic Celebration of the First National Park.

Elizabeth A. Watry will soon receive her MA in history from Montana State University and is the author of Women in Wonderland. Watry co-authored Images of America: Yellowstone National Park with Lee Whittlesey.

Paul Schullery is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than forty books on nature, national parks, history, and outdoor sport. He is the recipient of the Wallace Stegner Award and the Roderick Haig-Brown Award, and he wrote and narrated the award-winning PBS film Yellowstone: America's Sacred Wilderness. He is currently a scholar-in-residence at Montana State University Library, Bozeman.

Table of Contents

Foreword Paul Schullery xi

Preface xiii

Introduction: Travel and America's First National Park 1

1 Scrambles in Wonderland Granville Stuart? 1873 7

2 Across the Continent Thomas E. Sherman 1877 39

3 Camping Out in the Great Yellowstone Valley, Montana Territory Mrs. L. D. Wickes 1880 60

4 A Trip to America William Hardman 1883 78

5 Mount Washburn H.F.G. 1883 98

6 A Lady's Trip to the Yellowstone Park O. S. T. Drake 1885 105

7 Yellowstone Philadelphia Times 1886 114

8 A Midsummer Ramble H. Z. Osborne 1888 124

9 Autumn in the Yellowstone Park: A Midsummer Ramble Henry Erskine Smith 1893 156

10 Cycling Through Yellowstone Park Lyman B. Glover 1896 167

11 The Yellowstone National Park W. D. Van Blarcom 1897 183

12 Yellowstone Park in 1898 John H. Atwood 1898 198

13 When I Went West: From the Bad Lands to California Robert D. Mcgonnigle 1900 217

14 From New York to Heaven Myra Emmons 1901 239

15 Yellowstone Park C. M. Skinner 1901 249

16 Touring the Yellowstone on Horseback Cornelius H. Patton 1902 265

17 Through the Yellowstone on a Coach Stephen M. Dale 1903 276

18 Through Yellowstone Park with the American Institute of Banking Fred W. Ellsworth 1912 292

19 A Little Journey to the Yellowstone Elbert Hubbard Alice Hubbard 1914 303

Index 327

Editorial Reviews

Enjoyable fare for general readers and useful commentary for historians of tourism.—Choice

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