Old Yellowstone Days

by Schullery, Paul; Whittlesey, Lee H.

• ISBN13: 9780826347527
• ISBN10: 0826347525
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Over thirty years after its original publication, former Yellowstone National Park archivist Paul Schullery's collection of travelers' accounts of their visits to the first national park still resonates with the tremendous impact the Park has had--and continues to have--as a wilderness and recreation destination. From John Muir's exultation of the beauty of Wonderland to Rudyard Kipling's hilarious invective of the American tourist, Old Yellowstone Days includes selections which form the best picture of what Yellowstone must have been like before the intrusion of the automobile. Updated with a new introduction by Schullery, new illustrations, and a new foreword by Yellowstone National Park Historian Lee Whittlesey, this volume, which takes its title from an article by Owen Wister, also includes the impressions of William O. Owen, Charles Dudley Warner, Theodore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, Mrs. George Cowan, George Anderson, Emerson Hough, and Frederic Remington.

Author Biography

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. Lee H. Whittlesey is the author or editor of numerous books on Yellowstone including Ho! For Wonderland with Elizabeth Watry (UNMP).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Mrs. George Cowan [1877]	p. 5
William O. Owen [1883]	p. 33
John Muir [1885]	p. 45
Owen Wister [1887]	p. 71
Rudyard Kipling [1889]	p. 91
Frederic Remington [1893]	p. 121
Emerson Hough [1894]	p. 135
Charles Dudley Warner [1896]	p. 163
George Anderson [1897]	p. 179
Theodore Roosevelt [1903]	p. 191
John Burroughs [1903]	p. 215
A Note on the Readings	p. 237
Suggested Readings	p. 239
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