Seeing Yellowstone in 1871: Earliest Descriptions & Images from the Field

By Albert C. Peale

In 1871 the young mineralogist Albert Peale set out with the vaunted Hayden Expedition to map and explore the Yellowstone Basin. Ferdinand Hayden asked Peale, his former student, to write a series of letters to the Philadelphia Press about the survey's work. Just as these letters, the first impressions of Yellowstone sent back from the field, introduced nineteenth-century readers to some of the most breathtaking wonders of the American West, they allow readers today to rediscover one of the nation's most beloved and visited natural areas as it was just five months before it became the world's first national park.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803287879
• ISBN13: 9780803287877
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 85 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 8.8"