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Yellowstone Park

A Tale: Jim Bridger’s Descriptions of Yellowstone Wonders — Gunnison, 1852

September 24, 2011January 18, 2015 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"Geysers spout up seventy feet high, with a terrific hissing noise, at regular intervals. Waterfalls are sparkling, leaping, and thundering down the precipices ...."

A Tale: Watching a Giant Grizzly — Grace Gallatin Seton, 1896

September 17, 2011March 12, 2014 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"It was growing dark, and the bear looked a shocking size, as big as a whale. Dear me, perhaps Nimrod was inside—Jonah style."

A Tale: The Last Outpost of Civilization — 1874

July 13, 2011October 3, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

"No doubt the neighborhood of these springs will some day become a fashionable place. At present, being the last outpost of civilization—that is, the last place where whisky is sold."

On Writing: Narrative History Requires More Than Getting the Facts Right

June 30, 2011December 5, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 3 Comments

It's my job to present old stories for today's readers. I want people to read straight through my stuff and say: "That's interesting."

On Writing: Cubism, Narrative History and the Nez Perce

May 31, 2011August 25, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"Like a Cubist painting, the final narrative won’t always arrange things in the way that people are used to seeing them, but I hope it will be compelling and enlightening."

Narrative History or Historical Fiction 3: A Moonlit Night In Yellowstone Park, August 23, 1877.

May 21, 2011March 23, 2012 / mmarkmiller / 8 Comments

"Emma couldn’t have known that Yellow Wolf and his band of Nez Perce scouts had seen the bonfire and were planning to attack the camp the next morning."

A Tale: Touring Yellowstone Legally by Car — 1916

May 16, 2011October 3, 2011 / mmarkmiller / 1 Comment

"When the new National Park Service took administration from the Army in 1915, they allowed cars—an action that transformed the Yellowstone experience."

A Tale: Stampeded by an Umbrella — Wingate, 1885

May 3, 2011October 4, 2011 / mmarkmiller / Leave a comment

“Umbrellas and cayuses don’t agree.”

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: 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."

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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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