Research Catalog

Title

Take down flag & feed horses / Bill Everhart.

Author

Everhart, William C.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998], ©1998.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xxiv, 238 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Part memoir, part reportage, and all good reading, Take Down Flag & Feed Horses is the first volume devoted to the daily work of staff members at Yellowstone National Park. Written by a retired National Park Service historian, the book is divided into two parts, the first chronicling daily life at Yellowstone and the second detailing the savage fires that hit the park during the summer of 1988 and their aftermath.
• Bill Everhart lived in the park during the summer of 1978, accompanying the superintendent and his staff of rangers, naturalists, and scientists on daily rounds. His lively anecdotes and observations will lure readers farther and farther into the book - and perhaps into the park as well. His gripping account of the unstoppable fire of 1988 shows how fire, a presence in the Yellowstone ecosystem for thousands of years, ensured biological diversity.

Alternative Title

Take down flag and feed horses

Subjects

• Everhart, William C > Anecdotes
• Park rangers > Yellowstone National Park > Anecdotes
• Yellowstone National Park > Description and travel > Anecdotes

Contents

The beauty of the curve -- Fort Yellowstone -- Memorial Day weekend -- Stopping the clocks -- Outsiders among the insiders -- Mernin Country -- A lucky young lady -- Recruits from the ranger factory -- Those who charm and inform -- Tourists of the parks -- Saving all the pieces -- As long as the knees hold out -- Between earth and sky -- A place that takes you back -- Take down flag & feed horses -- A summer of fire -- The resource is wilderness -- Like a salmon swimming upstream.

ISBN

• 025202379X (alk. paper)
• 0252066812 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97021146

OCLC

• 37221153
• ocm37221153

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries