John Clayton

John Clayton's book Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon is being reissued as a Pegasus paperback in June 2026. John is also the author of Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands (Pegasus, 2019). His previous books include Stories from Montana's Enduring Frontier, a collection of essays on Montana history, and The Cowboy Girl, a biography of the Montana/Wyoming novelist, journalist, and homesteader Caroline Lockhart. Clayton writes regularly for Mountain Journal, The Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, and his email newsletter Natural Stories. He graduated from Williams College and has lived in Montana for the past 36 years.