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News & Views: Visitors “Outrageously” Close to Old Faithful

April 29, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported this morning that a group of tourists had been caught on video standing within a few feet of the famous Old Faithful Geyser."

A Tale: Saving a Scalded Man — c. 1872

April 24, 2011August 7, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"The formation gave way with us, my companion going down with it into the horrible seething pool. I narrowly escaped by falling backward into the solid form formation."

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

February 8, 2011October 7, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 6 Comments

"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."

A Tale: The First Written Description of Yellowstone Geysers — Daniel T. Potts, 1827

December 6, 2010March 26, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

"The springs throw particles to the immense height of from twenty to thirty feet in height. The clay is white and of a pink. The water appears fathomless,"

A Tale: A Cloud-Burst of the Rarest Jewels

November 22, 2010April 3, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 4 Comments

"John L. Stoddard was a professional writer who revealed his emotions and used figures of speech to describe what he saw. "

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: A Million Billion Barrels of Hot Water — 1871

October 2, 2010April 19, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

All that hot water prompts experiments and hijinx.

A Tale: Angering Old Faithful — 1877

September 21, 2010April 19, 2013 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

Did you ever wonder what would happen if you dumped a ton of rocks and rubble into Old Faithful? Frank Carpenter found out.

Why I’m Interested in Yellowstone Stories

September 16, 2010June 13, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 7 Comments

When I was a little boy, my grandmother used to tell me stories about her trip to Yellowstone National Park in 1909. Grandma went to the park with her aunt, seven cousins, and two brothers. Great Aunt Elvina was recently widowed and her youngest daughter was born after her husband died. Family lore says that … Continue reading Why I’m Interested in Yellowstone Stories

An Event: Off to a Family Reunion

July 30, 2010April 16, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

How my family came to Montana and practical jokes with Old Faithful.

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.

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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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