A Tale: Photographing Grizzlies With Flash Powder — 1906
At the dawn of the Twentieth Century, a self-described hunter-naturalist named William Henry Wright decided to start carrying a camera …
Monthly Archives: July 2011
An Event: I Had Fun Signing Books at Old Faithful Inn
” If a book sale results, that’s fine. But if it just gives me a chance to chat with people from all over the world, that’s fine too.”
A Tale: A Moonlit Wait for Fountain Geyser —1897
“The stars blinked and twinkled and watched over us and the geyser. It was a beautiful sight, with the great geyser before us slowly and deliberately preparing for a mighty effort, the pines back of us sighing and whispering to one another, and that little knot of impatient watchers moving to and fro in the firelight. “
An Event: Off to a Book Signing at Old Faithful Inn
With its spectacular log and limb lobby and massive (500-ton, 85-foot) stone fireplace, the inn is a prime example of the ‘Golden Age’ of rustic resort architecture.”
A Tale: Fishing the Once Barren Firehole River — 1897
“Zip, something struck the end fly and started up stream, making the line hum through the water and the reel spin. … It was a good big trout. There is only one thing that acts the way this something on the end of my line did.”
A Tale: The Last Outpost of Civilization — 1874
“No doubt the neighborhood of these springs will some day become a fashionable place. At present, being the last outpost of civilization—that is, the last place where whisky is sold.”
On Writing: Using Scrivener To Manage Multiple Threads in Narrative History
“Often the tip is something I already know; often it’s about a feature that I don’t think I’d ever use, and sometimes—like today—it provides a solution to a problems that’s been vexing me for weeks.”
A Tale: Bicycling Through Yellowstone Park in 1898
“Another time, the road being good, …he wheel was fairly spinning along, when around a curve not twenty feet away was lying in the track a large black bear. There was every indication of a collision head-on”
A Tale: Buffalo Poacher Provokes a Law That Snares Him — 1894
“With this conviction as a precedent and a strong determination to make other arrests under the new law whenever it is violated, I believe the days of poaching in the Park are nearly at an end.”
