M. Mark Miller

Category: geysers

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

Mar 18, 2014

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mmarkmiller

in geysers, Thomas Moran

Moran had illustrated Yellowstone’s wonders before he ever saw them.
News: Giantess Geyser Erupts for the First Time in Years

Jan 31, 2014

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mmarkmiller

in geothermal features, geysers

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

Dec 13, 2013

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in geysers, Sights, Uncategorized

“The eruptions as witnessed by moonlight are truly sublime.”
A Tale: A Circuit Rider Describes the Upper Geyser Basin — Edwin J. Stanley, 1873

Jun 8, 2013

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mmarkmiller

in geysers, Yellowstone Stories

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, 2013

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in geysers, Uncategorized, Yellowstone Stories

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

Apr 19, 2013

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in geysers, Humor, Yellowstone Stories

“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

Apr 12, 2013

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in geysers, Yellowstone Stories

“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

Feb 17, 2013

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mmarkmiller

in Canyons, geysers, Humor, Yellowstone Stories

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

Dec 9, 2012

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in geysers, Yellowstone Stories

“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

Oct 31, 2012

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in geysers, Mountain Men, Trappers, Yellowstone Stories

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