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Moran’s Legacy 3: The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone — Text by F.V. Hayden

March 20, 2013March 21, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

Mr. Thomas Moran, a celebrated artist, and noted for his skill as a colorist, exclaimed with a kind of regretful enthusiasm that these beautiful tints were beyond the reach of human art.

A Scene: Watching Deer in Yellowstone Canyon — Harrison Smith, 1914.

February 24, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

" I caught one glimpse of the lordly up-lifted head of the stag; there was a crash of loose stones under his feet and he turned and fled into the friendly depths of the forest."

A Tale: Adventurers Run Out of Grub at Old Faithful — Seth Bullock, 1872

February 17, 2013February 18, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

We are getting short on grub. Nothing left but flour and coffee. White prepared for supper a new dish, called Geyser sauce.

Moran’s Legacy: Tower Fall — Text by N.P. Langford

October 3, 2012October 4, 2012 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"Thomas Moran began conjuring images of the upper Yellowstone before he even saw the place."

A Tale: Lieutenant Doane Descends to the Bottom of Yellowstone Canyon — 1870

June 7, 2012 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"After four hours of hard labor since leaving the horses, we finally reached the bottom of the gulf and the margin of the Yellowstone, famished with thirst, wet and exhausted."

A Tale: Rafting Across the Yellowstone to View the Canyon From Artist Point — Holmes, 1896.

December 3, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

"We are unable to tell what most impresses us: the immensity of the great gulf, the infinite glory of its colored walls, the struggling river far below, the stately army of tall pines massed on the brink ...."

A Tale: Rolling Boulders Down Gardiner Canyon — Wingate, 1885

November 26, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 3 Comments

"It was wonderful to see a stone the size of a trunk leap into the air in a plunge of 200 or 300 feet, strike the shelf below as if thrown by a catapult, and with such tremendous force as to rebound twenty feet...."

A Scene: The Great Falls of the Yellowstone — Washburn, 1870

November 19, 2011December 17, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 3 Comments

The water, just before it breaks into spray, has a beautiful green tint, as has also the water in the canyon below. .... The mingling of green water and white spray with the rainbow tints is beautiful beyond description.

View: Thomas Moran Painted His Impression of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

May 13, 2011January 18, 2014 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"He probably would have agreed that seeing the painting was no substitute for the real thing. But then, seeing the real thing is no substituted for the painting."

A Tale: To the Base of the Lower Fall of the Yellowstone

April 18, 2011May 9, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 4 Comments

"I hung there, sometimes by two fingers of each hand, my toes inserted into some tiny crack, panting for breath, benumbed, speechless, sweating at every pore."

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M. Mark Miller is a fifth-generation Montanan who grew up on a small ranch north of Yellowstone Park. His earliest memories are of his grandmother telling about her trip to the park in 1909 and her father and grandfather's trip there in 1882. Miller has capitalized on his life-long interest in Yellowstone history to assemble anthologies and write fiction and literary non-fiction. Explore these pages to find out more about his life, books and speaking.

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Intrepid explorers document the area's wonders, then lobby for creation of Yellowstone Park.

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Tourists tangle with Indians fleeing a pursuing army.

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Women tell of their adventures in Yellowstone Park more than a century ago.

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A 14-year-old boy tries to save his companion who fell into a geyser — and battles horse thieves.

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Bite-size stories of adventure and humor with geysers, waterfalls and bears.

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A woman is captured by Indians. A man is lost 37 days in the wilderness. And ten more exciting stories.

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