An Event: Getting Ready for Danforth Gallery in Livingston
I’ve been getting ready to present my Humanities Montana program “Sidesaddles and Geysers” on Tuesday, March 6, at the Danforth …
Monthly Archives: February 2012
A Tale: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park (Part 4) — HWS 1880.
“We traveled over a road made of obsidian, which is a sort of volcanic glass, of a reddish black color, and glistened beautifully in the sun.”
News: Raptors of the West Wins 2011 Montana Book Award
Last Saturday I spent the day at Chico Hot Springs with other members of the Montana Book Award choosing this …
A Tale: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park (Part 3) — HWS 1880.
“Without a moment’s warning, we heard a most awful rumbling, the ground shook under our feet, and there burst into the air a column of water and steam that looked as if it reached the skies.”
A Tale: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park (Part 2) — HWS 1880
After reaching the end of the railroad line, HWS travels with a pack train through scorching days and freezing nights …
A Tale: Gilman Sawtell, Yellowstone’s First Commericial Guide
“Sawtell’s main business was harvesting and selling fish, as many as 40,000 of them a year. He reportedly caught as many as 160 trout an hour, averaging two and a half pounds each, with a hook and line.’
A Tale: A Lady’s Visit To The Geysers Of The Yellowstone Park — HWS 1880 (Part 1)
“On July 27th we started for Camas on the little narrow gauge railroad, our road lying through the dreariest of all dreary alkali plains. As far as the eye could reach, there was nothing to be seen but the burning sand and the sad gray sagebrush.”
