A Yellowstone reader : the national park in popular fiction, folklore, and verse / edited and annotated by Richard L. Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Richard L., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National parks and reserves--Literary collections.

National parks and reserves.

National parks and reserves--Folklore.

American literature--West (U.S.).

American literature.

Folklore--West (U.S.).

Folklore.

Yellowstone National Park--Literary collections.

Yellowstone National Park.

Yellowstone National Park--Folklore.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 309 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2003]

Summary:

A collection of writings, including fur trapper tales and short stories, about America's oldest and largest national park.

Contents:

Yellowstone in Fictional Literature: Themes and Ideas ix

Folklore and Verse

Tales from Hiram M. Chittenden's The Yellowstone Park, 1895 / Jim Bridger 3

Little Ta-Wish: Indian Legends from Geyserland, 1914 / Mary Earle Hardy 8

Legend of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1925 / H. C. Reagan 15

"Yellowstone Park and How It Was Named," 1892 / William Tod Helmuth 21

"Yellowstone's First Laundry," 1921 / Albert Whipple Hadley 26

Truthful Lies of Yellowstone Park, 1923 / Charles Van Tassell 29

Novels and Series Fiction

Diamond Dirk; or, The Mystery of the Yellowstone, 1878 / Prentiss Ingraham 37

Chaperoning Adrienne, 1907 / Alice Harriman-Browne 95

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Yellowstone National Park, 1923 / Jessie Graham Flower 125

Shadow Riders of the Yellowstone, 1952 / Les Savage Jr. 155

Short Stories

"Maw's Vacation," 1924 / Emerson Hough 187

"Bad Medicine," 1928 / Owen Wister 210

"Mr. Wahlquist in Yellowstone," 1987 / Douglas H. Thayer 236

Other Yellowstone Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and indexes.

ISBN:

0874807565

OCLC:

51566719