Old Yellowstone Days

Schullery, Paul - Editor; Townsley, John - Foreword

ISBN 10: 0870811215 / ISBN 13: 9780870811210

Published by Associated University Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1979

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250 Pages. No marks of any sort and the text pages are bright, tight,and white. In addition to the eleven articles on Yellowstone There is: A Note on the Readings, Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading and Bibliography. Over thirty years after its original publication, former Yellowstone National Park archivist Paul Schullery's collection of travelers' accounts of their visits to the first national park still resonates with the tremendous impact the Park has had--and continues to have--as a wilderness and recreation destination. From John Muir's exultation of the beauty of "Wonderland" to Rudyard Kipling's hilarious invective of the American tourist, Old Yellowstone Days includes selections which form the best picture of what Yellowstone must have been like before the intrusion of the automobile. Updated with a new introduction by Schullery, new illustrations, and a new foreword by Yellowstone National Park Historian Lee Whittlesey, this volume, which takes its title from an article by Owen Wister, also includes the impressions of William O. Owen, Charles Dudley Warner, Theodore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, Mrs. George Cowan, George Anderson, Emerson Hough, and Frederic Remington.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Old Yellowstone Days
• Publisher: Associated University Press, Boulder, Colorado
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870811215
• ISBN 13: 9780870811210
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Comstock, David - Design
• Edition: First Edition Assumed
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Over thirty years after its original publication, former Yellowstone National Park archivist Paul Schullery's collection of travelers' accounts of their visits to the first national park still resonates with the tremendous impact the Park has had--and continues to have--as a wilderness and recreation destination. From John Muir's exultation of the beauty of "Wonderland" to Rudyard Kipling's hilarious invective of the American tourist, Old Yellowstone Days includes selections which form the best picture of what Yellowstone must have been like before the intrusion of the automobile. Updated with a new introduction by Schullery, new illustrations, and a new foreword by Yellowstone National Park Historian Lee Whittlesey, this volume, which takes its title from an article by Owen Wister, also includes the impressions of William O. Owen, Charles Dudley Warner, Theodore Roosevelt, John Burroughs, Mrs. George Cowan, George Anderson, Emerson Hough, and Frederic Remington.

From the Inside Flap

This new edition of the first book to collect accounts of early visits to Yellowstone includes a new Foreword by park historian Lee H. Whittlesey.