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Storytelling in Yellowstone : horse and buggy tour guides
- Title
- Storytelling in Yellowstone : horse and buggy tour guides / Lee H. Whittlesey.
- Author
- Whittlesey, Lee H., 1950-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xiv, 377 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Yellowstone National Park > Historiography
- Yellowstone National Park > History
- Storytelling > Yellowstone National Park > History
- National parks and reserves > Interpretive programs > United States > Case studies
- Historiography > Yellowstone National Park > History
- Yellowstone National Park > Biography
- Storytellers > Yellowstone National Park > Biography
- Tour guides (Persons) > Yellowstone National Park > Biography
- Tourism > Yellowstone National Park > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-358) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: National park interpretation and its roots in early Yellowstone National Park -- Native Americans : the earliest Yellowstone storytellers -- Munchausen storytellers : trappers around the campfire -- "Everyone can understand a picture!" : early Yellowstone photographs tell the stories with images -- Lectures and lecturers : Langford and later men marry sound and pictures -- Wonders enumerated and peculiarities noted : early Yellowstone guidebooks and writers -- "Well dressed, lettered, and affixed" : signs and guideboards in early Yellowstone -- "A pronounced weakness for geysers" : early geyser "gazers" in Yellowstone -- Philetus "Windy" Norris : the "first" national park interpreter -- G.L. Henderson : the other "first" national park interpreter -- "All them fool tenderfoot questions!" : stories on the Yellowstone grand tour -- "To point out the way" : early tour guides in Yellowstone -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: "Do you recall your walk in Geyser Basin?" -- Appendix 2: Livingston Enterprise biography of "Geyser" Bill -- Appendix 3: Petition to the Secretary of the Interior to retain P.W. Norris as park superintendent.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-2849
- ISBN
- 9780826341174 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0826341179 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006031014
- OCLC
- 71800546
- Author
- Whittlesey, Lee H., 1950-
- Title
- Storytelling in Yellowstone : horse and buggy tour guides / Lee H. Whittlesey.
- Imprint
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-358) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-2849