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Introducing Free Reads
I’ve used this blog to post stories I’ve found about early travel to Yellowstone Park and occasionally other stories. Also, I like to let people know about my other a ctivities: writing, speaking and occasional personal notes. Of course, I’ll keep doing those things, but with some new twists. Yellowstone travel stories are getting harder…
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Dangerous Adventures with Hot Spring and Geysers
Over the last few weeks there have been several stories about injuries and deaths caused by ignoring the rules in Yellowstone National Park. Here a good example from The Billings Gazette. The coverage reminded me that I have posted several stories about tourists’ encounters with hot springs and geysers. I decided to reprise some of…
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Distinctly Montana Publishes “Tales of the Begrade Bull.”
Distinctly Montana published my article “Tales of the Belgrade Bull” in its Spring 2016 issue. It’s the boisterous tale about the son of a Holstein dairy cow that nobody could ride. The bull was “discovered” on a ranch north of Belgrade, Montana, where he learned to buck off children who attempted to ride him after…
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An Event — Ready to Present at Park County Senior Center in Livingston
I’ve been getting ready to present “Sidesaddles and Geysers: Women’s Adventures in Early Yellowstone” on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 6:30 in the Park County Senior Center, 206 South Main, Livingston. The program, sponsored by Humanities Montana, is free and open to the public. I always enjoy getting ready for my presentations because it gives me…
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A Scene: Watching Yellowstone’s Grand Geysers — H.W.S., 1881
It would heave and swell, and the glorious fountain would suddenly burst up again into the blue sky!
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An Introduction to Yellowstonese.
She is a happy and self-reliant creature, the savage, and the best hype of American girl.
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This blog is credible — Wikipedia makes it official
While checking to see how my blog was doing yesterday, I noticed that one of my hits came from Billings author Craig Lancaster’s Wikipedia page. “That’s strange,” I thought. So I checked it out. Sure enough! There it was in footnote number 10, a citation to my post of March 1, 2011, “Reading Hemingway in Yellowstone by Craig…
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Fan Mail for MACON’S PERFECT SHOT
I received this very nice letter today from Zack Lea of Bozeman. I’m thrilled that he loved my book, Macon’s Perfect Shot. I wrote it with guys like Zack in mind. He turned 12 today. Happy Birthday, Zack.
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Preparation and First Day Traveling to Yellowstone Park — Henry Isaac Jacobs, 1900
The girls seemed to be enjoying them selves with a big jumping rope so we found them and played school kids for a while.
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Yellowstone’s Lake Hotel Joins National Registry of Historic Places
Yellowstone Park’s colonial style Lake Hotel has been added to the National Registry of Historic Places. Originally built by the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1891, Robert Reamer, the architect who conceived the remarkably different Old Faithful Inn, redesigned and expanded it in 1903. The hotel has been renovated several times since then. Here’s how travel writer…