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Happy Birthday Yellowstone Park
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill that created Yellowstone National Park on March 1, 1872. The act put the federal government in the business of managing public land for recreation and marked the culmination of the national park idea that had been percolating for some time. As can be seen from the documents below,…
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Sales of All My Books Break the Top Three Percent on Amazon
I admit it. I routinely check the Amazon sales ranking on all three of my books. I know it doesn’t mean much, but it does provide a feel for how things are going. When I checked this afternoon all three of my books were hovering around the one hundred thousand mark. That doesn’t sound great…
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Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody
∞§∞ Frontispiece from Camp and Cabin by Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Fords, Howard & Hulbert (New York) 1880.
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A Tale: One Side of the Great Indian Question — S. Weir Mitchell, 1880
Relations between Native Americans and whites then often were appalling.
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Share: Wolves Start an Ecological Cascade That Shapes Yellowstone Rivers (video)
Removal of the top predators affected the ecology of the park in unexpected ways. Their reintroduction — as this video makes clear — is changing things back.
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An Event: Ready to Launch Macon’s Perfect Shot at Gallatin History Museum
I’ve been getting ready to launch my new middle-grades novel, Macon’s Perfect Shot, with a reading Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 6 p.m. at the Gallatin History History Museum, 317 W. Main, in Bozeman.
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An Event — Finding a Story to Present at the Huntley Irrigation Museum
AMontana rancher armed with only a shovel and a canvass dam stopped a Northern Pacific Railroad construction crew literally in its tracks.
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An Event: I’m Ready for My Eastern Montana Tour
I’ve picked some of the very best tales from my collection of more than 300 first-person accounts of early travel to Yellowstone Park.
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Coming Soon: Macon’s Perfect Shot
A treat for young readers, and those who wish they were still young.