Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour GuidesUNM Press, 2007 - 377 Seiten Long before snowmobiles, paved roads, and SUVs were introduced into Yellowstone National Park, a myriad of companies offered buggy and stage rides through the Park, with their drivers telling stories to their passengers. Some of these stories had no basis in fact, especially those attributed to "Indian legends," but others came from the early trappers and fur traders and were as informational as they were entertaining. Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone National Park historian, has devoted years of research to these pre-1920 stories told by the Park's "tour guides," or interpreters. He includes the campfire stories of the traders and trappers, Yellowstone as it was portrayed in early photos and movies, the first group of Yellowstone guidebooks written, and the "fool tenderfoot questions" posed by the late nineteenth-century tourists. Whittlesey devotes chapters to the first two National Park interpreters, Philetus "Windy" Norris and G. L. Henderson. Each had his own style of delivery and each awed his respective tour groups. And, finally, there are the stagecoach drivers who chauffeured the public over Yellowstone's dirt roads and engaged their passengers with tales of the great Geyserland. Today's National Park Service has taken over the duties of the "horse and buggy tour guides" but private and concessioner tour guides also share Yellowstone National Park's many stories. All author proceeds from this book are being donated to the National Park Service. |
Inhalt
Freeman Tilden Dean of National Park Service Interpreters | 7 |
CHAPTER | 11 |
CHAPTER | 25 |
Fur trapper Baptiste Ducharme | 27 |
CHAPTER THREE | 33 |
Henry Bird Calfee and his family about 1880 | 42 |
Joshua Crissman 18331922 | 48 |
Thomas Moran 18371926 | 53 |
Devils Thumb | 113 |
CHAPTER NINE | 119 |
George L Henderson about 1895 | 120 |
At Liberty Cap G L Henderson shakes hands with a member of the William McClintock party of Ohio circa 1888 | 150 |
CHAPTER | 167 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 197 |
YPT Company stagecoach and driver loading or unloading passengers at Mammoths National Hotel | 205 |
Stage driver Billy McCallister | 210 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 55 |
E Burton Holmes lecturer and world traveler | 65 |
Flyer for lecturer Howard Hayss Touring Talk on Yellowstone 1910 | 69 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 73 |
Title page for Harry Nortons Wonderland Illustrated 1873 | 75 |
First page of G L Hendersons Yellowstone Park Manual and Guide 1885 | 77 |
Cover of W C Rileys Worlds Wonderland 1889 | 78 |
CHAPTER | 81 |
Rules and Regulations of the Yellowstone National Park | 82 |
Nameplate sign at Giantess Geyser | 83 |
One of Chittendens wayside exhibit signs | 91 |
George Rea no date hunter from eastern Idaho | 93 |
Dr A C Peale mineralogist and one of Yellowstones earliest geyser enthusiasts | 97 |
Arnold Hague 18401917 geologist and one of Yellowstones most important early geyser enthusiasts 1896 | 99 |
Photographer H B Calfees store at Upper Geyser Basin | 103 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 107 |
P W Norris Yellowstones second superintendent about 1880 | 108 |
Stage driver Tom Casey 1914 | 211 |
Porter at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel about 1905 | 216 |
Wylie Camping Company tent camp at Swan Lake Flats | 219 |
Various editions of Charles Van Tassells Truthful Lies | 221 |
Shaw and Powell stagecoaches at Gardiner Montana | 223 |
Concessioner walking guide Rexford Sheild in uniform holds his megaphone at the Minute Geyser loading platform | 231 |
Concessioner walking guide Rexford Sheild prepares to address his visitors at Minute Geyser Norris Geyser Basin | 233 |
Hotel porters at Old Faithful Inn summer of 1912 | 234 |
A F Uncle Tom Richardson | 240 |
Fountain Hotel 18911916 Lower Geyser Basin | 242 |
U S Army soldier talks to a visitor about Giant Geyser | 246 |
YPT Company bus driver Boogs Chenard about 1927 | 259 |
AYP Company uniformed tour guide about 1973 | 262 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 265 |
APPENDIX | 271 |
APPENDIX | 279 |
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