Yellowstone
Like No Other Place On Earth
photography by David William Peterson
published by Farcountry Press
- Around the campfire in September 1870, a small group of men who had just spent more than a month wandering in what they called "Wonderland" came up with a grand idea: to protect the incredible landscape for all to enjoy by designating it a national park. And in 1874, Yellowstone National Park was born.
In this unique book, a contemporary landscape photographer's color images accompany excerpts from the journal of that famous trek, published as The Discovery of Yellowstone Park by expedition member Nathaniel P. Langford. Text and photographs combine to give readers the same experience of discovery that those nineteenth-century explorers enjoyed.
80 pages, 9 x 8, 82 color photos, 50 softcovers per case, Smythe-sewn
softcover
ISBN 10: 1560372079
ISBN 13: 9781560372073
$12.95
RELEASE DATE
04/01/2002
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| Yellowstone
Like No Other Place On Earth |
| "I went around and almost under the fall, or as far as the rocks gave a foot-hold, the rising spray thoroughly wetting and nearly blinding me. Some two hundred yards below the fall is a huge granite boulder about thirty feet in diameter. Where did it come from?
In camp today, several names were proposed for the creek and fall, and after much discussion the name 'Minaret' was selected. Later, this evening, this decision has been reconsidered, and we have decided to substitute the name 'Tower' for 'Minaret' and call it 'Tower Fall.' August 28, 1870" -from page 25
"While surveying the wonders, our ears were constantly saluted by dull, thundering, booming sounds, resembling the reports of distant artillery. As we approached the spot whence they proceeded, the ground beneath us shook and trembled as from successive shocks of an earthquake. Ascending a small hillock, the cause of the uproar was found to be a mud volcano�the greatest marvel we have yet met with. September 2, 1870" -from page 69 |
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A veteran of more than 20 seasons in northwestern Wyoming, David William Peterson was born and raised in Nebraska. His photographs have appeared in Wyoming Wildlife and Popular Photography, as well as in gallery showings. He has published several books on Yellowstone National Park. |