A Tale: Wapiti Are The Stupidest Brutes — 1874
“He stood without betraying the slightest sign of fear or hesitation; but, as if searching with proud disdain for the intruder that had dared to invade his solitude.”
Monthly Archives: November 2010
A Tale: A Cloud-Burst of the Rarest Jewels
“John L. Stoddard was a professional writer who revealed his emotions and used figures of speech to describe what he saw. “
News and Views: A Truly Great Conversation in Helena
Eleanor Corthell told her husband t0 expect a bill because she had bought a team and wagon and was taking their seven children to Yellowstone Park for the summer in 1904.
News and Views: Off to Helena for “Great Conversations”
Can you help? Please look around through the posts on my blog and tell me which ones would make for the best dinner conversation.
A Tale: Naming Tower Fall— Langford, 1870
While the explorers always had be be alert for the dangers of Indians, wild animals, and strange geothermal features, they also found ways to have fun.
The Belgrade Bull 5: The Jake Ross Controversy
Old timers can tell “the true story” just the way their grandfathers told it to them. Of course, “the true story” varies ….
A Tale: Photos—A Grizzly Chases a Yellowstone Bison
I focus my interest in Yellowstone Park stories to things that happened before 1915, but I couldn’t resist joining the thousands of others who shared these remarkable photos.
A Tale: “Get Out and Throw Up Your Hands”
“… the first thing I saw was a man with a double barreled shotgun—full cocked pointed at the driver. Another man behind the coach had two six barreled pistols in his hand.”
The Belgrade Bull 4: Corbett Throws All Challengers — Maybe
Of course, Belgrade residents were making money betting on Corbett, selling liquor, and–as a local doctor observed–repairing broken bones.
A Tale: Cooking Fish on the Hook in a Hot Spring
Here’s one of few descriptions of an angler actually catching a fish and cooking it in a hot spring without removing it from the hook.
