Category: Yellowstone Stories
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A Tale: Big Boots to Fill — Carrie Strahorn, 1880
“With the wind shrieking requiems for the dead and threats for the living, and with the rafters full of bats, I called to him to bring me his shoe, and let me win my wager.”
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A Tale: An Arctic Explorer Braves Yellowstone Park in Winter — 1887
“A blinding snowstorm which lasted four days overtook the party of four. During this entire time they wandered day and night without shelter, provisions or fire ….”
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Ten Funny Stories From Yellowstone Park
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A Tale: Sidford’s Fall on Grand Teton Mountain — Langford, 1872
“Mr. Hamp, fresh from his home in England, knew little of the properties of snow and ice, and at one of the critical points in our ascent, trusting too much to their support, slipped and fell. For a moment, his destruction seemed inevitable ….”
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A Tale: Jim Bridger’s Descriptions of Yellowstone Wonders — Gunnison, 1852
“Geysers spout up seventy feet high, with a terrific hissing noise, at regular intervals. Waterfalls are sparkling, leaping, and thundering down the precipices ….”
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A Tale: Watching a Giant Grizzly — Grace Gallatin Seton, 1896
“It was growing dark, and the bear looked a shocking size, as big as a whale. Dear me, perhaps Nimrod was inside—Jonah style.”
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A Tale: Guiding the Nez Perce Through Yellowstone Park — 1877
“After traveling about a mile, I heard seven distinct shots fired, and supposed all the persons had been killed.”
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A Tale: Ajax Takes a Trip to Yellowstone Park —1880
“I carefully walked toward it and stopped in awe at the fearful sight that met my gaze when a light breeze wafted the steam from me, as I was at the brink of that hellish hole. One more careless step and—the end.”
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A Tale: Photographer Tangles with an Elk — Seton, 1913
“Fossum with the most amazing nerve stood there quietly focussing his camera, till the bull was within ten feet, then pressed the button, threw the camera into the soft snow and ran for his life with the bull at his coat-tails.”
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A Tale: Grub Pile, Preparing a Camp Supper — Ingersoll, 1880
“If a stream that holds out any promise is near, the rod is brought into requisition at once; and, if all goes well, by the time the cook is ready for them, there are enough fish for the crowd.”