Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides

by Lee H. Whittlesey

Book Overview

In the early years of Yellowstone National Park, many companies offered buggy and stage rides through the park, their drivers telling stories to the passengers. Some had no basis in fact, especially those attributed to "Indian legends," but others came from the early trappers and fur traders and were informational as well as entertaining.

Lee H. Whittlesey, former Yellowstone National Park historian, devoted years of research to these pre-1920...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826341187
• ISBN13: 9780826341181
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"