Yellowstone Place Names - Hardcover

Lee H. Whittlesey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1424311284 ISBN 13: 9781424311286

Publisher: Wonderland Publishing Company, 2006

Synopsis

(same as softcover)

About this title

About the Author:

Lee H. Whittlesey is Park Historian for the National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming-Montana-Idaho. He has lived and worked in Yellowstone National Park for 37 summers and 27 winters. Over those years he has worked at all of the locations possible in the Park and has held a variety of positions, including maintenance worker, bus tour guide, tour bus driver, park law enforcement ranger, park ranger-naturalist, and technical writer. For ten years he was park archivist. Whittlesey has bachelors and law degrees (Juris Doctor) from the University of Oklahoma, a master's degree in history from Montana State University, and two honorary Ph.Ds.---in Letters from Idaho State University and History from Montana State University. He is the author of ten books and more than 30 journal articles on Yellowstone National Park and western history subjects. Yellowstone Place Names was his first book, published before he became park historian.

Review:

"How and by whom, and for whom geographic features are christened is always curious, and never more so than in a place like Yellowstone...Most of the more than [850] named peaks, valleys, geysers, and thermals have stories to tell, and Whittlesey's compilation is both guide and commentary." --Spokane Chronicle, 2/13/89

About this edition

• Publisher: Wonderland Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1424311284
• ISBN 13: 9781424311286
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: N/a
• Illustrator: N/a