Merrill D. Beal

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

OUTDOORS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Chapter I YELLOWSTONE THE GEM OF THE MOUNTAINS

Chapter II JOHN COLTER'S DISCOVERY OF YELLOWSTONE

Chapter III INDIANS IN AND AROUND YELLOWSTONE

Chapter IV PORTRAIT OF A TRAPPER BRIGADE

Chapter V WERE INDIANS AFRAID OF YELLOWSTONE?

Chapter VI SECONDARY VISITATIONS BEFORE 1869 Parties in Search of Fur

Chapter VII JIM BRIDGER MAN AND LEGEND

Chapter VIII FINAL DISCOVERY IN 1869 AND 1870

Chapter IX CREATION OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Chapter X THE LAST ROUNDUP

Chapter XI CHIEF JOSEPH'S TRAIL OF BLOOD

Chapter XII TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATIONS NEW BUSINESSES

Chapter XIII "THE YELLOWSTONE IDEA"

Chapter XIV GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

Chapter XV THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Appendix I YOUNG MEN CAMPING IN YELLOWSTONE WILDERNESS

Appendix II THE PROBLEM OF "COLTER'S ROUTE IN 1807"

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

BIBLIOGRAPHY MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL

FOOTNOTES

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

Greetings from Wonderland Park Naturalist Merrill D. Beal

THE STORY
of
MAN IN YELLOWSTONE

REVISED EDITION

THE YELLOWSTONE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
ASSOCIATION
Yellowstone Park, Wyoming

Copyright, 1949
By The Caxton Printers, Ltd.
Caldwell, Idaho

Copyright, 1956
By The Yellowstone Library and
Museum Association
Yellowstone Park, Wyoming

Copyright, 1960
By The Yellowstone Library and
Museum Association

Printed and bound in the United States of America
by the WHEELWRIGHT LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY,
Salt Lake City, Utah

To

The men in the National Park Service Uniform, protectors and interpreters of Yellowstone. Indeed, to all National Park Service personnel and others who subscribe to the purposes for which the area was reserved.

This book is published by the Yellowstone Library and Museum Association, a non-profit organization whose purpose is the stimulation of interest in and the furtherance of the educational and inspirational aspects of Yellowstone’s history and natural history. The Association cooperates with and is recognized by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior, as an essential operating organization. It is primarily sponsored and operated by the Naturalist Division in Yellowstone National Park.

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