Category: yellowstone
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A Tale: “The Rod Bent Nearly Double,” General W. E. Strong — 1875
“I pressed my thumb firmly upon it and drew gently back the rod. At the same instant something struck my hook that nearly carried me off my feet.”
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A Tale: “Into the Scalding Morass,” Langford — 1870
“As I fell, my right arm was thrust violently through the treacherous surface into the scalding morass.”
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First Women: Mary Wylie Crosses Yellowstone Park in a Covered Wagon — 1880
“Sometimes tree stumps were too tall to let the wagons pass …. [and] the party had to hitch a team to the back of the wagon and pull it back so they could cut the stump lower.”