Book Description
Yellowstone National Park is situated mainly in Wyoming with parts in Montana and Idaho.
Author : Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : Two Bears Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Yellowstone National Park is situated mainly in Wyoming with parts in Montana and Idaho.
Author : Aubrey L. Haines
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Until the late nineteenth century, Yellowstone National Park, known for such famous landmarks as Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, and the Firehole River, was a land largely unknown, uninhabited, and unnamed. The few maps available noted only a handful of major features known from the seasonal visits of trappers and prospectors. Among the large number of place names related to Yellowstone National Park are many that mirror the area's fascinating history. This book devotes chapters to the place names drawn from Native Americans, fur trappers, prospectors, explorers, modern visitors, park concessionaires and employees, and three special groups: (1) the "unapproved" place names that remain in use regardless, (2) names that have lost their cogency and have disappeared from use, and (3) a group of names from outside the park boundary that have always been very important to it. Each chapter is preceded by a brief review of the historic period and its relationship to the park area. An introduction includes information on the present rules covering the naming of features in Yellowstone, and the sources list more than four hundred references examined for place name history.
Author : Lee H. Whittelsey
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780295967066
Author : Aubrey L. Haines
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Until the late nineteenth century, Yellowstone National Park, known for such famous landmarks as Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, and the Firehole River, was a land largely unknown, uninhabited, and unnamed. The few maps available noted only a handful of major features known from the seasonal visits of trappers and prospectors. Among the large number of place names related to Yellowstone National Park are many that mirror the area's fascinating history. This book devotes chapters to the place names drawn from Native Americans, fur trappers, prospectors, explorers, modern visitors, park concessionaires and employees, and three special groups: (1) the "unapproved" place names that remain in use regardless, (2) names that have lost their cogency and have disappeared from use, and (3) a group of names from outside the park boundary that have always been very important to it. Each chapter is preceded by a brief review of the historic period and its relationship to the park area. An introduction includes information on the present rules covering the naming of features in Yellowstone, and the sources list more than four hundred references examined for place name history.
Author : Clyde Max Bauer
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Names, Geographic
ISBN :
Author : Susan Frank
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780764909344
Contributors trace the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions under which environmental movements have emerged, and assess the transformative capacities of these movements by analyzing their structural ties, cultural values, and political strategies. Two sets of countries illustrate di
Author : Jules Leclercq
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1496211707
In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.
Author : Rich Aarstad
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 097591961X
Among Montana’s most enduring legacies are the names assigned to its geographic features and places found on the state map. As long as humans have inhabited Montana they have named places. While the past two centuries have changed the way people live in Montana, the names given to some rivers, mountain ranges, cities, and towns have persisted, while others have changed with time. Naming Montana explores the origins of more than 1,000 Montana place names, drawing upon the knowledge of Montana Historical Society historians and the expertise of local historians from across the state. This new publication includes both geographic features, selected historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, historic photographs, and maps. The authors’ extensive research illuminates the stories behind the names of places that we call home.
Author : Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN :
Author : Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1570984514
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, 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.