Myth And History In The Creation Of Yellowstone National Park

Author : Paul Schullery,Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0803243057

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Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park by Paul Schullery,Lee H. Whittlesey Pdf

Does a beloved institution need its own myths to survive? Can conservationists avoid turning their heroes into legends? Should they try? Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society’s vision seemed focused on only greed and growth. Perhaps that is why the park’s “creation myth” portrayed a few saintlike pioneer conservationists laboring to set aside this unique wilderness against all odds. In fact, the establishment of Yellowstone was the result of complex social, scientific, economic, and aesthetic forces. Its creators were not saints but mortal humans with the full range of ideals and impulses known to the species. Authors Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey, both longtime students of Yellowstone’s complex history, present the first full account of how the fairy tale origins of the park found universal public acceptance and the long, painful process by which the myth was reconsidered and replaced with a more realistic and ultimately more satisfying story. In this evocative exploration of Yellowstone’s creation myth, the authors trace the evolution of the legend, its rise to incontrovertible truth, and its revelation as a mysterious and troubling episode that remains part folklore, part wish, and part history. This study demonstrates the passions stirred by any challenge to cherished national memories, just as it honors the ideals and dreams represented by our national myths.

Author : Ednor Therriault
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493032150

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Myths and Legends of Yellowstone by Ednor Therriault Pdf

The world's first designated national park, Yellowstone is famous for its steaming geysers, bubbling mud pots, and wildlife-caused traffic jams. But few people may know about the many Native American tribes that visited the area long before John Colter "discovered" it, how one man nearly decimated the park's bison population, or the strange music that emanates from Yellowstone Lake. Each episode included in this book explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Yellowstone National Park’s history. From rumors of ghosts in the iconic Old Faithful Inn to Bigfoot sightings throughout the park, Myths and Legends of Yellowstone makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of this national treasure's most fascinating and compelling stories.

Author : Bruce T. Gourley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493059225

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Historic Yellowstone National Park by Bruce T. Gourley Pdf

Historic Yellowstone National Park captures the most interesting moments in the park’s history, the slices of life in Montana and Wyoming that provide an idea of what life was like for those who chose to explore this gloriously beautiful corner of the United States. There’s the presence of Native Americans in the early years of the area’s history, the early explorers and expeditions, its debut as the very first national park, the explosive growth of tourism, and the people who made history in this astonishing and mysterious Rocky Mountain landscape. Historic YellowstoneNational Park provides just enough of this rich history to make the experience of visiting the park better than expected.

Author : Robert Rath
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781560374855

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Yellowstone's Hot Legends and Cool Myths by Robert Rath Pdf

Ten of Yellowstone National Park's folkloric tales are presented in graphic novel format.

Author : Kiki Leigh Rydell,Mary Shivers Culpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Yellowstone National Park
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123453628

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Managing the "matchless Wonders" by Kiki Leigh Rydell,Mary Shivers Culpin Pdf

Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0972152210

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Searching for Yellowstone by Paul Schullery Pdf

Schullery's book details the ecological history of Yellowstone National Park.

Author : Alfred Runte
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493067336

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National Parks by Alfred Runte Pdf

Revised with a new epilogue, “We the People,” this fifth edition of National Parks: TheAmerican Experience continues the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning and management of these treasured lands. Further supported with period photographs and now twelve pages of color paintings, National Parks remains a stirring look into the lands that define America, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to wilderness Alaska. This is how we got our parks, and looking to the future, the challenges that remain in preserving them. Are “we the people” still up to the task? Yes, this history advises, but only if we consistently cherish the national unity that our commitment to the parks further demands.

Author : John Clayton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681774961

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Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park and the Evolution of an American Cultural Icon by John Clayton Pdf

An evocative blend of history and nature writing that tells the story of Yellowstone’s evolving significance in American culture through the stories of ten iconic figures. Yellowstone is America's premier national park. Today is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone to enjoy the great outdoors. But it was not always this way. Wonderlandscape presents a new perspective on Yellowstone, the emotions various natural wonders and attractions evoke, and how this explains the park's relationship to America as a whole. Whether it is artists or naturalists, entrepreneurs or pop-culture icons, each character in the story of Yellowstone ends up reflecting and redefining the park for the values of its era. For example, when Ernest Thompson Seton wanted to observe bears in 1897, his adventures highlighted the way the park transformed from a set of geological oddities to a wildlife sanctuary, reflecting a nation was concerned about disappearing populations of bison and other species. Subsequent eras added Rooseveltian masculinity, democratic patriotism, ecosystem science, and artistic inspiration as core Yellowstone hallmarks. As the National Park system enters its second century, Wonderlandscape allows us to reflect on the values and heritage that Yellowstone alone has come to represent—how it will shape the America's relationship with her land for generations to come.

Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826343451

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Mountain Time by Paul Schullery Pdf

Schullery's heartfelt reflections on his relationship to the wildness of Yellowstone Park.

Author : Annalies Corbin,Matthew Russell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441910844

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Historical Archeology of Tourism in Yellowstone National Park by Annalies Corbin,Matthew Russell Pdf

Far too often in the ?eld of archeology, the wheel of understanding and insight has a narrow focus that fails to recognize critical studies. Crucial information rega- ing pivotal archeological investigations at a variety of sites worldwide is extremely dif?cult, if not impossible, to obtain. The majority of archeological analysis and reporting, at best, has limited publication. The majority of archeological reports are rarely seen and when published are often only in obscure or out-of-print journals – the reports are almost as hard to ?nd as the archeological sites themselves. There is a desperate need to pull seminal archeological writings together into single issue or thematic volumes. It is the int- tion of this series, When the Land Meets the Sea, to address this problem as it relates to archeological work that encompasses both terrestrial and underwater archeology on a single site or on a collection of related sites. For example, despite the fact that we know that bays and waterways structured historic settlement, there is a lack of archeological literature that looks at both the nautical and terrestrial signatures of watersheds in?uence on historic culture.

Author : Michael J. Yochim
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9780826353030

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Protecting Yellowstone by Michael J. Yochim Pdf

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be present in other more typical western landscapes. Each of these issues--bison, snowmobiles, grizzly bears, wolves, fires, and the New World Mine--was the center of a recent policy-making controversy involving federal politicians, robust debate with interested stakeholders, and discussions about the relevant science. Yet, the outcomes of the controversies varied considerably, depending on politics, science, how well park managers allied themselves with external interests, and public thinking about the effects of park proposals on their access and economies. Michael Yochim examines the primary influences upon contemporary national park policy making and considers how those influences shaped or constrained the final policy. In addition, Yochim considers how park managers may best work within the contemporary policy-making context to preserve national parks.

Author : Roddy Scheer
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781643263878

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Yellowstone and Grand Teton’s Best Nature Walks by Roddy Scheer Pdf

Plan out your trip on some of America's most beautiful natural wonders with this indispensable guide to the flora, fauna, geology, and hiking trails of Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Step out of your car and right into nature! Yellowstone and Grand Teton’s Best Nature Walks by Roddy Scheer guides you through simple hikes that feature the best of the park’s rich ecology. Each entry starts with the brief description of the hike's level of difficulty—all are gentle to moderate and cover no more than two miles. Entries also include directions and clear descriptions of the flora, fauna, and geology you are likely to encounter along the way. Yellowstone and Grand Teton’s Best Nature Walks is a must-have guide for outdoor enthusiasts, hikers, and tourists.

Author : P. J. White,Robert A. Garrott,Glenn E. Plumb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780674076433

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Yellowstone’s Wildlife in Transition by P. J. White,Robert A. Garrott,Glenn E. Plumb Pdf

The world's first national park, Yellowstone is a symbol of nature's enduring majesty and the paradigm of protected areas across the globe. But Yellowstone is constantly changing. How we understand and respond to events that are putting species under stress, say the authors of Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition, will determine the future of ecosystems that were millions of years in the making. With a foreword by the renowned naturalist E. O. Wilson, this is the most comprehensive survey of research on North America's flagship national park available today. Marshaling the expertise of over thirty contributors, Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition examines the diverse changes to the park's ecology in recent decades. Since its creation in the 1870s, the priorities governing Yellowstone have evolved, from intensive management designed to protect and propagate depleted large-bodied mammals to an approach focused on restoration and preservation of ecological processes. Recognizing the importance of natural occurrences such as fires and predation, this more ecologically informed oversight has achieved notable successes, including the recovery of threatened native species of wolves, bald eagles, and grizzly bears. Nevertheless, these experts detect worrying signs of a system under strain. They identify three overriding stressors: invasive species, private-sector development of unprotected lands, and a warming climate. Their concluding recommendations will shape the twenty-first-century discussion over how to confront these challenges, not only in American parks but for conservation areas worldwide. Highly readable and fully illustrated, Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition will be welcomed by ecologists and nature enthusiasts alike.

Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811751650

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If Fish Could Scream by Paul Schullery Pdf

In essays sometimes controversial, sometimes reflective, all fascinating, Paul Schullery ruminates on the evolution of fly fishing.

Author : rk Mark Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493045211

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Encounters in Yellowstone by rk Mark Miller Pdf

On August 23, 1877, a scout named Jack Bean watched 600 Nez Perce Indians head into the new Yellowstone National Park. Bean rushed 60 miles to the nearest telegraph office to tell the army where the Indians were going. He didn’t take time to warn tourists who were visiting the park that was then a roadless wilderness. The Indians flight for freedom is a touchstone of the history of the American West, so most people know about their 1,200-mile running battle with the army that ended just forty miles from the Canadian border and freedom. However few know the stories of the confrontations between the Nez Perce and park tourists. Encounters in Yellowstone tells about those thrilling adventures: Emma Cowan’s watching Indians shoot her husband in the head and then taking her captive; Andrew Weikert’s blazing gun battles when he tries to rescue friends missing after an Indian attack, and George Cowan’s six-mile crawl to get help after he was shot three times and left for dead. The book tells these and other true stories with all the detail and drama of fiction.