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Mammoth Hot Springs

A Tale: Finding a Goldilocks Pool at Mammoth Hot Springs — John W. Barlow, 1871

April 19, 2013April 20, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 2 Comments

"The temperature varies in the different pools from fifty degrees all the way up to one hundred and eighty, so there is no difficulty in finding a bath of suitable temperature."

Moran’s Legacy 2: Mammoth Hot Springs — Text by Edwin J. Stanley, 1883

July 25, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"The first impression on beholding it is that of a snowy mountain beautifully terraced, with projections extending out in various directions, resembling frozen cascades, as though the high, foam-crested waves, in their rapid descent over the steep and rugged declivity, were suddenly arrested and congealed on the spot in all their native beauty. "

A Tale: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park (Part 4) — HWS 1880.

February 22, 2012May 9, 2013 / mmarkmiller / 3 Comments

"We traveled over a road made of obsidian, which is a sort of volcanic glass, of a reddish black color, and glistened beautifully in the sun."

A Tale: Army Bicyclists Visit Yellowstone Park — 1896

April 15, 2011June 2, 2012 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

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

A Tale: Emma Cowan Visits Mammoth — 1873

January 6, 2011January 17, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"My fairy books could not equal such wonderful tales. Fountains of boiling water, thrown hundreds of feet into the air ... pools of water in whose limpid depths tints of various rainbows were reflected." mounds and terraces of gaily colored sand.”

Early Yellowstone Entrepreneurs

September 18, 2010April 22, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 3 Comments

In case you missed, I've posted a link to my Big Sky Journal article on the first intrepid entrepreneurs who tried to turn a dollar in Yellowstone Park.

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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