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A Tale: Colonel Pickett’s Version of Bagging His First Bear — 1877

June 20, 2011February 17, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"This bear came, passing about twenty yards in our front. A cartridge was ready, and against Jack's injunction "Don't shoot," I fired; yet, it failed to stop him, and Jack turned loose with his repeater, I shooting rapidly with my rifle."

A Tale: In a Country Swarming With Grizzly Bears — 1874

March 15, 2011January 12, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 3 Comments

"Jack fired. Hit him. The bear gave one tremendous yell—looked round a moment—then tore up the ground like mad and flew at the trees, sending the bark flying in all directions. "

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

March 3, 2011April 8, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

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

News and Views: A Truly Great Conversation in Helena

November 19, 2010April 3, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

Eleanor Corthell told her husband t0 expect a bill because she had bought a team and wagon and was taking their seven children to Yellowstone Park for the summer in 1904.

A Tale: Photos—A Grizzly Chases a Yellowstone Bison

November 10, 2010September 27, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

I focus my interest in Yellowstone Park stories to things that happened before 1915, but I couldn't resist joining the thousands of others who shared these remarkable photos.

A Tale: Yellowstone’s First Tourists Seek “First Blood”

October 18, 2010November 3, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 10 Comments

"Old hunters say a bear can be successfully handled (in an emergency) by waiting till he rises on his hind feet, and then smiting him under the fifth rib till he dies. They never tell how the bear amuses himself in the meantime."

A Tale: Colonel Pickett Gets His Bear — 1877

August 31, 2010December 5, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

An experienced guide saves a greenhorn from a charging bear and then lets the man take credit for the kill.

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.

My Books

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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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