Tag: Yellowstone Park
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A Tale: In a Country Swarming With Grizzly Bears — 1874
“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. “
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News: Climate Change—Not Just Wolves—May Cause Fewer Yellowstone Elk
“You might go out … when the snow is deep upon the range and shoot blacktail deer till you were sick of slaughter.”
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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.”
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A Tale: Mabel Cross Osmond: Dolly Saved My Life — 1874
Mabel said “Dolly” saved her life “by instantly stopping when … my saddle turned, leaving me hanging head downward, helplessly strapped in until the others could reach me.”
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A Tale: An Optimistic Prospector — 1863
“Each member, as discoverer, should be entitled to five claims of two hundred feet each along the gulch. … What shall we do with the rest.”
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A Tale: An October Snow Storm at Yellowstone Canyon — 1880
“The horses were gone and we were at the end of our rations with a big storm upon us.”
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A Tale: The First Written Description of Yellowstone Geysers — Daniel T. Potts, 1827
“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,”
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A Tale: Wapiti Are The Stupidest Brutes — 1874
“He stood without betraying the slightest sign of fear or hesitation; but, as if searching with proud disdain for the intruder that had dared to invade his solitude.”