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Moran’s Legacy 4: Watching Giantess Geyser — Text by N. P. Langford, 1871

March 18, 2014 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

Moran had illustrated Yellowstone's wonders before he ever saw them.

News: Giantess Geyser Erupts for the First Time in Years

January 31, 2014January 31, 2014 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

When it begins an eruption, for some minutes it throws 250 feet high, but after this not eighty feet high.

A Scene: Gesyers in the Moonlight — Edwin J. Stanley, 1883

December 13, 2013December 13, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"The eruptions as witnessed by moonlight are truly sublime."

A Tale: A Circuit Rider Describes the Upper Geyser Basin — Edwin J. Stanley, 1873

June 8, 2013June 8, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

Some of the party built bonfires and watched the eruptions by firelight, which were very fine, giving the rising volumes the appearance of fiery liquid hurled forth from the crater of a volcano.

A Tale: Early Travelers Confuse Geyser Basins — Rossiter Raymond, 1871

May 24, 2013May 26, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

Since, the largest eruptions we observed did not exceed forty-five feet in height, we set down his [Langford's] account as hugely overdrawn, and were deeply disgusted at the depravity of travelers.

A Tale: Finding a Goldilocks Pool at Mammoth Hot Springs — John W. Barlow, 1871

April 19, 2013April 20, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

"The temperature varies in the different pools from fifty degrees all the way up to one hundred and eighty, so there is no difficulty in finding a bath of suitable temperature."

A Tale: Prospectors Say They Have Seen the Fires of Hell — Montana Post, 1867

April 12, 2013July 30, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"His feet broke through, and the blue flame and smoke gushed forth, enveloping him."

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.

A Tale: Soaping Beehive Geyser to Make It Play — Georgina Synge, 1892

December 9, 2012December 9, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

“She’s off —the ‘Beehive’s guisin’,” shouted Smithson, and off we dashed, helter-skelter, arriving breathless, but in capital time to see a grand eruption."

A Tale: Joe Meek Flees Blackfeet and Finds Wonderland — c. 1829

October 31, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"Joe gazed and wondered. Curious thoughts came into his head, about hell and the day of doom. "

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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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