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 : 13,65 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Yellowstone National Park is situated mainly in Wyoming with parts in Montana and Idaho.
Author : Aubrey L. Haines
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 38,6 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 : 21,42 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Names, Geographic
ISBN :
Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Yellowstone National Park
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Yellowstone National Park
ISBN :
Author : Jules Leclercq
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,19 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 : United States. National Park Service
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Yellowstone National Park
ISBN :
Author : Hiram Martin Chittenden
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1917
Category : National parks and reserves
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Author : Lee H. Whittelsey
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780295967066
Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1604532394
Discusses the history of this national park, its geological features, plant and animal life, dangers in the park, and efforts to preserve it.