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A Tale: An Unfair Fight Between a Bear and a Pussy Cat — Ernest Thompson Seton, 1896

September 7, 2013September 7, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"Eighteen sharp claws, a mouthful of keen teeth, had Pussy, and she worked them all with a desperate will when she landed on Grumpy's bare, bald, sensitive nose."

A Tale: An Englishman Describes the Fourth of July at Mammoth Springs — Rudyard Kipling, 1889

July 3, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"The clergyman rose up and told them they were the greatest, freest, sublimest, most chivalrous, and richest people on the face of the earth, and they all said Amen."

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: 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: The New Camp Spirit Gets Arrested— Eleanor Corthell 1903

September 2, 2012September 7, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

"But then, you would not expect such a large family to pass among a whole valley full of yawning gulfs and smiling springs and shooting geysers, absorbed until they forgot time and place and circumstance and not have something happen, would you?"

A Tale: One Good, Square Drink — General W.E. Strong, 1875

March 22, 2012March 22, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"The horses were going rapidly, with a drunken driver fast asleep, and only a foot between the outer wheels and the brink of the precipice two hundred feet high—where, if a horse slipped and went down, or a wheel came off, there was no hope for us."

A Tale: Big Boots to Fill — Carrie Strahorn, 1880

October 24, 2011January 13, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"With the wind shrieking requiems for the dead and threats for the living, and with the rafters full of bats, I called to him to bring me his shoe, and let me win my wager."

Ten Funny Stories From Yellowstone Park

October 5, 2011April 13, 2014 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

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A Tale: Teaching Greenhorns About Snipe Driving — Langford, 1872

August 5, 2011November 17, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"The spot was chosen because of its proximity to a marsh which was supposed to be filled with snipe. In reality it was the swarming place for mosquitoes."

A Tale: The Last Outpost of Civilization — 1874

July 13, 2011October 3, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"No doubt the neighborhood of these springs will some day become a fashionable place. At present, being the last outpost of civilization—that is, the last place where whisky is sold."

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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.

My Books

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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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