Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone

The story of the conquest of America's majestic national landmark, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the Civil War's aftermath.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

"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, New York Times–bestselling author

Empire of Shadows is the epic ...