Category: Yellowstone Stories
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Moran’s Legacy: Tower Fall — Text by N.P. Langford
“Thomas Moran began conjuring images of the upper Yellowstone before he even saw the place.”
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A Tale: Ernest Thompson Seton Describes a Bear Fight — 1896
“They clinched and rolled over and over, whacking and pounding, snorting and growling, and making no end of dust and rumpus.”
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An Event: Getting Ready To Present “The Nez Perce in Yellowstone” at The Pioneer Museum
“The talk, which is part of the Gallatin Historical Society’s Fall Lecture Series, will focus the dramatic stories told by tourists who survived run-ins with the Indians in the Summer of 1877.”
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A Tale: Gunshot Man Crawls to Safety — George Cowan, 1877
” I supposed that I was the only one of the party left, unless it be my wife, and the speculations upon her fate almost set me mad. “
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A Tale: “Near Roughing It” With TR — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 1890
“We had undertaken too long an expedition, namely, the ascent of Mt. Washburn, and then to Towers’ Falls in one day, during which, to add to the complications, Edith had been thrown and quite badly bruised. “
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A Tale: A Cattle Baron’s Trip to Yellowstone — 1883
“As far as camping was concerned, there were no restrictions. Everything was free and easy. There were no government troops stationed at various points, though we realized the need of them as many of the beauties were defaced by the souvenir hunters.”
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A Tale: Documenting Prospector Tales of Boiling Fountains — Cook, 1869
“It is a scene of transcendent beauty which has been viewed by but few white men, and we felt glad to have looked upon it before its primeval solitude should be broken by the crowds of pleasure seekers which at no distant day will throng its shores.”
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A Tale: Lieutenant Doane Descends to the Bottom of Yellowstone Canyon — 1870
“After four hours of hard labor since leaving the horses, we finally reached the bottom of the gulf and the margin of the Yellowstone, famished with thirst, wet and exhausted.”
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A Tale: A Bear Fight in the Yellowstone Park — 1903
“A long legged cinnamon bear snatched the remains of some ribs of beef from under the nose of a big mother black bear at the moment she was calling her two little cubs to partake of the roast. “
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A Tale: TR Seeks the Thrill of Killing Endangered Bison — 1889
“Mixed with the eager excitement of the hunter was a certain half melancholy feeling as I gazed on these bison, themselves part of the last remnant of a doomed and nearly vanished race.”