yellowstone – Page 3 – M. Mark Miller

A Tale: Army Bicyclists Visit Yellowstone Park — 1896

Apr 15, 2011

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in bicyles, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

“They were members the 25th Infantry, U.S. Army Bicycle Corps, a unit of African-American soldiers with white officers.”

A Tale: The Facts Are Tangled, But The Stagecoach Robbery Stories Are Fun

Apr 3, 2011

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in Uncategorized, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

“The bandit, who had sewed together flour sacks over his head, that extended down to his waist, … pointed his revolver at me with his announcement, ‘This is a holdup.'”

A Tale: Crashing Through Yankee Jim Canyon in a Wooden Boat — c. 1902

Mar 27, 2011

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in Canyons, Humor, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

“Driving at all of fifteen miles an hour, [the boat] crashed with the shattering force of a battering ram. Indeed, it speaks a lot for her construction that she simply telescoped instead of resolving into cosmic stardust.

A Tale: Grandma Told Me Abuse Killed the Handkerchief Pool

Mar 19, 2011

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in Humor, Women’s Stories, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

“We wondered where it [the handkerchief] had been when lost to sight—what it had seen underground, and what tale it could tell if gifted with speech.

A Tale: Dunraven Says Mountain Men Led a “Delicious Life” — 1874

Mar 9, 2011

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in Dunraven, yellowstone

“With an Indian wife to look after his bodily comforts, a man may devote himself to hunting, fishing, or trapping without a thought or care.”

A Tale: Lord Blackmore Riles His Guide by Catching 254 Fish in One Day — 1872

Mar 3, 2011

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in Fishing, Hunting, Uncategorized, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

“Sport hunters condemned commercial hunting, but reserved their own right to blast away at anything that moved.”

Guest Blog: Reading Hemingway in Yellowstone by Craig Lancaster

Mar 1, 2011

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in On Writing, Uncategorized, yellowstone

How does he do that? When you pick up one of Craig Lancaster’s books, he grabs you by the throat and drags you kicking and screaming into the story. You’ve got no choice.You just turn the pages until you get to the end. Then you say, “that was good.” Craig’s writing is invisible like a…

A Tale: Two Pictures and 1300 Words — Walter Trumbull, 1870

Feb 25, 2011

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in Canyons, Falls, Washburn, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

‘The waters … plunged downward, breaking into myriads of drops; each drop, like a lens, gathering prismatic tints from the shining sun, and flashing like diamonds of the purest brilliancy.

A Tale: Hour Spring, A Geyser by Another Name — c. 1834

Feb 8, 2011

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in Mountain Men, Uncategorized, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

“it begins to boil and bubble violently and the water commences raising and shooting upwards until the column arises to the height of sixty feet.”

Paul Schullery Comments on the General’s Fishing Tackle

Feb 1, 2011

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in Fishing, Uncategorized, yellowstone, Yellowstone Stories

“No doubt [Strong’s] relatively light tackle, which included a silkworm gut leader that may not have been strong enough to horse a big fish in heavy water, had an effect on his handling of this fish.

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