By Paul Schullery
Over thirty years after its unique ebook, former Yellowstone nationwide Park archivist Paul Schullery's selection of tourists' bills in their visits to the 1st nationwide park nonetheless resonates with the super impression the Park has had--and keeps to have--as a wasteland and sport vacation spot. From John Muir's exultation of the great thing about "Wonderland" to Rudyard Kipling's hilarious invective of the yank vacationer, Old Yellowstone Days comprises decisions which shape the simplest photo of what Yellowstone should have been like ahead of the intrusion of the automobile.
Updated with a brand new creation by way of Schullery, new illustrations, and a brand new foreword by means of Yellowstone nationwide Park Historian Lee Whittlesey, this quantity, which takes its identify from a piece of writing by way of Owen Wister, additionally contains the impressions of William O. Owen, Charles Dudley Warner, Theodore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, Mrs. George Cowan, George Anderson, Emerson Hough, and Frederic Remington.
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Then with hands and teeth he tore his underwear into bandages and dressed his wounds as best he could. Even though the month was August the nights were cold in this altitude, so that this was added to his other discomforts. He continued crawling, getting up on the hillside that he might better watch the trail. Several times he heard and saw Indians passing, and one night nearly came upon two who were sleeping. His idea was to reach the home camp in the Lower Basin, believing he might be found more readily in that vicinity, also that he would possibly find food and matches there.
I induced my mother to allow my young sister, a child of a little more than a dozen years, to accompany me, as I was to be the only woman of the party and she would be so much company for me. J. Arnold, J. A. Oldham and Mr. Dingee, all of Helena, Mr. Charles Mann, my brother, Frank Carpenter, Mr. Cowan, my sister, self and cook named Myers. We were nicely outfitted with an easy double-seated carriage, baggage wagon and four saddle horses, one of them my own pony, a birthday gift from my father years before, which I named Bird because she was trim and fleet.
The rightness of that approval has since become manifest in the spread of the national park idea, both in the United States and around the world. The accounts in this book are examples of the enthusiasm and wonder which greeted the first of all national parks. By reading them we can enjoy Yellowstone, vicariously at least, in its stagecoach heyday; they add yet one more dimension to the "benefit and enjoyment" to be derived from the Grand Old Park. Cowan a few years after her trip through Yellowstone Park.