Research Catalog

Title

Yellowstone drift : floating the past in real time / John Holt ; [foreword by Doug Peacock].

Author

Holt, John, 1951-

Publication

Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 2009.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 204 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

"In a time when everything seems to be regulated, controlled, and monitored, Yellowstone Drift is a refreshing and exhilarating look at the natural wonder of the Yellowstone River, one of the last undammed big rivers in America. High above sea level in the mountains of the Yellowstone National Park plateau, the river tumbles and rushes down to the Paradise Valley just north of Livingston, Montana, before meandering through the northern high plains for well over 500 serpentine miles to its confluence with the Missouri River in North Dakota." "John Holt, in his customary free-form, anecdotal-style and oblique vision, takes the reader on a wild ride down this natural treasure, examining the wildlife, the people, the fishing, the bars and the river itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Yellowstone River > Description and travel
• Yellowstone River Valley > Description and travel
• Montana > Description and travel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-199) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword -- Elk River / Doug Peacock -- Introduction. All of This Begins Here -- Ch. 1. Gliding Through Paradise: Carbella to Mayor's Landing (46 miles) -- Ch. 2. Out Into The Open: Mayor's Landing to Big Timber (39 miles) -- Ch. 3. Whitewater Slide: Big Timber to Stillwater River (43 miles) -- Ch. 4. Modern World Surfaces Then Fades Away: Stillwater River to Pompey's Pillar (83 miles) -- Ch. 5. Back Into The Sun: Pompey's Pillar to Howrey Island (54 miles) -- Ch. 6. Prairie, Coulee and Bluff: Howrey Island to Tongue River (90 miles) -- Ch. 7. High Plains Badlands: Rauche Juan (Just Below Tongue River) to Glendive (92 miles) -- Ch. 8. Getting To This: Glendive to Fort Buford at Missouri River North Dakota (77 miles) -- Conclusion: Nowhere At All Is Really Everywhere.

ISBN

• 9781904859895
• 1904859895

LCCN

^^2008927321

OCLC

• 216936909
• SCSB-11640407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library