Yellowstone place names (A Montana Historical Society guide) - Softcover

Whittlesey, Lee H

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9780917298158: Yellowstone place names (A Montana Historical Society guide)

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ISBN 10: 0917298152 ISBN 13: 9780917298158

Publisher: UNKNO, 1988

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Yellowstone National Park, the world's first national park and a place of spectacular natural wonders, is a fantastic and surprising landscape of names. Since the time of the fur trappers, who called it the place "where hell bubbled up," names have bee laid down on Yellowstone. Rivers, mountains, creeks, hot springs, lakes, and valleys in the Park have been named after famous and not-so-famous personalities, after wildly imaginative images suggested by thermal features, and after the flora and fauna of this magnificent region. The list of place names in this book is at once a guide to the Park, a complementary on unique places, and a capsule history of Yellowstone. After 12 years of intensive research, author Lee H. Whittlesey has written Yellowstone Place Names, the first book of its kind to be published. Digging his facts out of government records, tourist narratives, old guidebooks, and newspaper articles, Whittlesey introduces us to the fascinating histories of more than 650 place names. You can discover how places received their names, who named them, why they were named, and their anecdotal histories. You can find out who named Old Faithful and why, who first floated a boat on Yellowstone Lake, and why places such as Roaring Mountain and Handkerchief Pool got their names. Illustrated with reference maps and historical photographs, Yellowstone Place Names is a book that will introduce everyone-even those who know the Park well-to a Yellowstone they have not seen before.

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About the Author:

The author has spent thirty years researching the over 4,000 place names of Yellowstone National Park. Although this book was written on his own time, he is a professional historian, who serves as Park Historian for the National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park. This book, originally published in 1988, represents a revised and expanded version (2006). Whittlesey has a master's degree in history from Montana State University, a law (J.D.) degree from the University of Oklahoma, and a Ph.D. (Honorary) from Idaho State University.

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Lee Whittlesey is "the premier authority and it's the best book ever written on the subject, a standard reference work of essential worth to both scholars and visitors, and all that sort of thing. I'm really pleased to see the new edition is almost out." Paul Schullery author of 36 books on the American West and adjunct professor of history at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Schullery is also a Technical Editor for the National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming-Montana-Idaho. --Paul Schullery, (406) 585-5337

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