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Yellowstone Stories

“Mule-packin’ is like the first year of gettin‘ married.” — S. Weir Mitchell, 1880

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"Thar is allus the devil to pay, and after that it most usually settles."

A Tale: Making Camp Along the Yellowstone River — George W. Wingate, 1885

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"Sam flying around from one side of the fire to another, with an intense air of preoccupation, and occasionally uttering a droll remark regarding his experiences in cooking under the various circumstances of his checkered life."

A Tale: Breakfast on a Cold Wilderness Morning — Ernest Ingersoll, c. 1880

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"The snow, or the hoarfrost, is thick on the grass beside your couch, and possibly your clothes . . . are covered with as much rime as the beard of St Nicholas."

A Tale: Gathering a Specimen From a Boiling Spring— N.P. Langford, 1870

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"The approach to them was unsafe, the incrustation surrounding them bending in many places beneath our weight."

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

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"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: Confusion Surrounds the First Car Officially in Yellowstone — 1915

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People feared that automobiles would frighten horses and wildlife, so the park superintendent issue a general order forbidding cars. .... Despite this several vehicles entered the park by accident or contrivance.

A Tale: Guarding the Horses — Rossiter Raymond, 1871

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"The night-noises are mysterious and amazingly various, particularly if the camp is surrounded by woods."

A Tale: Traveling to Yellowstone with a Mule Train — John Mortimer Murphy, c. 1879

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"These teamsters are a hardy, rough-and-ready class, who seem impervious alike to fear and the vicissitudes of the weather; and it would be difficult to find any persons more hospitable than they are."

A Tale: Face to Face With a Hungry Mountain Lion — Turrill, 1898

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"Quicker than lightning the truth flashed over me. The animal had taken to a tree. and was even then, very likely, making ready for a spring."

A Tale: “The worst nuisance in the way of wild varmints is the bears.” Clifton Johnson, 1919.

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"I used to have a mule that liked nothing better than to chase a bear up a tree."

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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.

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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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