Storytelling in Yellowstone : horse and buggy tour guides / Lee H. Whittlesey.

Contents Introduction: National park interpretation and its roots in early Yellowstone National Park -- Native Americans : the earliest Yellowstone storytellers -- Munchausen storytellers : trappers around the campfire -- "Everyone can understand a picture!" : early Yellowstone photographs tell the stories with images -- Lectures and lecturers : Langford and later men marry sound and pictures -- Wonders enumerated and peculiarities noted : early Yellowstone guidebooks and writers -- "Well dressed, lettered, and affixed" : signs and guideboards in early Yellowstone -- "A pronounced weakness for geysers" : early geyser "gazers" in Yellowstone -- Philetus "Windy" Norris : the "first" national park interpreter -- G.L. Henderson : the other "first" national park interpreter -- "All them fool tenderfoot questions!" : stories on the Yellowstone grand tour -- "To point out the way" : early tour guides in Yellowstone -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: "Do you recall your walk in Geyser Basin?" -- Appendix 2: Livingston Enterprise biography of "Geyser" Bill -- Appendix 3: Petition to the Secretary of the Interior to retain P.W. Norris as park superintendent.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-358) and index.
LCCN 2006031014
ISBN9780826341174 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0826341179 (cloth : alk. paper)

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