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Thomas Moran

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.

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.

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."

Moran’s Legacy 2: Mammoth Hot Springs — Text by Edwin J. Stanley, 1883

July 25, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"The first impression on beholding it is that of a snowy mountain beautifully terraced, with projections extending out in various directions, resembling frozen cascades, as though the high, foam-crested waves, in their rapid descent over the steep and rugged declivity, were suddenly arrested and congealed on the spot in all their native beauty. "

Moran’s Legacy 1: Paintings of the Yellowstone Wonderland

July 12, 2012July 23, 2012 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"I did not wish to realize the scene literally, but to preserve and to convey its true impression."

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."

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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