Humor – Page 2 – M. Mark Miller

A Tale: Nights of Romance in Yellowstone Park — 1919

Jun 2, 2011

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“Pop suddenly slipped and nearly tumbled into the hot water that lay on the thin crust of the basin. He grasped frantically and in so doing kicked the girl’s foot so as to shove her towards Win.”

A Tale: Skiing with Theodore Roosevelt in Yellowstone Park — 1903

May 26, 2011

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“As we were going swiftly down the side of one of the hills, I saw out of the corner of my eye the President taking a header into the snow.”

A Tale: A Mother Takes Her Seven Children to Yellowstone Park — 1903

May 7, 2011

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For Mother’s Day: Some fun family adventures.

A Tale: Stampeded by an Umbrella — Wingate, 1885

May 3, 2011

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“Umbrellas and cayuses don’t agree.”

A Tale: Crashing Through Yankee Jim Canyon in a Wooden Boat — c. 1902

Mar 27, 2011

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“Driving at all of fifteen miles an hour, [the boat] crashed with the shattering force of a battering ram. Indeed, it speaks a lot for her construction that she simply telescoped instead of resolving into cosmic stardust.

A Tale: Grandma Told Me Abuse Killed the Handkerchief Pool

Mar 19, 2011

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“We wondered where it [the handkerchief] had been when lost to sight—what it had seen underground, and what tale it could tell if gifted with speech.

A Tale: Rudyard Kipling Goes Fishing With Yankee Jim — 1889

Feb 22, 2011

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” It seemed to me … that I might hold my own with the old-timer if I judiciously painted up a few lies gathered in the course of my wanderings. Yankee Jim saw every one of my tales and went fifty better.

A Tale: An Optimistic Prospector — 1863

Dec 28, 2010

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“Each member, as discoverer, should be entitled to five claims of two hundred feet each along the gulch. … What shall we do with the rest.”

A Tale: Naming Tower Fall— Langford, 1870

Nov 15, 2010

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While the explorers always had be be alert for the dangers of Indians, wild animals, and strange geothermal features, they also found ways to have fun.

A Tale: A Million Billion Barrels of Hot Water — 1871

Oct 2, 2010

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All that hot water prompts experiments and hijinx.

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