Yellowstone Land Of Wonders

Author : Jules Leclercq
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496211707
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellowstone, Land of Wonders written by Jules Leclercq and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.

Author : Janet Chapple
Publisher : Granite Peak Publications
ISBN 13 : 0970687389
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellowstone Treasures written by Janet Chapple and published by Granite Peak Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and oldest national park in the world can be enjoyed mile by mile with this complete travel guide. Along with fascinating facts and anecdotes, readers will learn of Yellowstone's geyser basins and the frequency of the geysers, out-of-the-way hikes, and flora and fauna. Easy-to-understand scientific explanations and diagrams complement an array of short walks, the right season for camping, and the park's campgrounds and facilities. Updated road logs highlight more than 100 historical points of interest, including the often misidentified locale from which artist Thomas Moran painted his "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone" masterpiece and where five stagecoach robberies occurred along the Grand Loop Road. New text examines areas that have changed in recent years, including the reconstructed Canyon-to-Dunraven Pass and the newly completed North Rim Drive at the Grand Canyon. Additionally, numerous new photographs feature historical and contemporary images.

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Publisher : Riverbend
ISBN 13 : 9781606390924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellowstone written by and published by Riverbend. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coffee-table photo book on Yellowstone National Park, contemporary design and photography

Author : Paul Raeburn
Publisher : National Geographic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mars written by Paul Raeburn and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a state-of-the-art report on the planet Mars, the technology that allows us to explore it, and the prospects for further exciting discoveries.

Author : Janet Chapple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733103220
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellowstone Treasures written by Janet Chapple and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete travel guide allows the reader to enjoy the first and oldest national park in the world mile by mile. First the reader can compare the different approaches to the park and plan an itinerary. Along with fascinating facts and anecdotes, readers will learn of Yellowstone's geyser basins and the frequency of the geysers, out-of-the-way hikes, and how to spot the wildlife and wildflowers. Updates to the sixth edition include a geological time line, new color photos, and revised maps.

Author : Robert B. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355601
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Windows into the Earth written by Robert B. Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth's interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic volcanic eruptions and large earthquakes, the hotspot helped lift the Yellowstone Plateau to more than 7,000 feet and pushed the northern Rockies to new heights, forming unusually large glaciers to carve the landscape. It also created the jewel of the U.S. national park system: Yellowstone. Meanwhile, forces stretching apart the western U.S. created the mountainous glory of Grand Teton National Park. These two parks, with their majestic mountains, dazzling geysers, and picturesque hot springs, are windows into the Earth's interior, revealing the violent power of the dynamic processes within. Smith and Siegel offer expert guidance through this awe-inspiring terrain, bringing to life the grandeur of these geologic phenomena as they reveal the forces that have shaped--and continue to shape--the greater Yellowstone-Teton region. Over seventy illustrations--including fifty-two in full color--illuminate the breathtaking beauty of the landscape, while two final chapters provide driving tours of the parks to help visitors enjoy and understand the regions wonders. Fascinating and informative, this book affords us a striking new perspective on Earth's creative forces.

Author : FRANK D. CARPENTER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033231074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WONDERS OF GEYSER LAND written by FRANK D. CARPENTER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janet Chapple
Publisher : Granite Peak Publications
ISBN 13 : 173310321X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellowstone Treasures written by Janet Chapple and published by Granite Peak Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes you the tour guide for your group! Janet Chapple shares her tips to pack for your trip, spot wildlife, see the best views, catch geyser eruptions, stay safe, and escape the crowds. The author's passion for the park, which began when her parents worked at Old Faithful Inn in the early twentieth century, shines throughout. Whether you want to hike in the geyser basins and forests, drive the mountain passes, ride horseback, or take a boat out on the lake, the mile-by-mile road logs prepare you. The description is enlivened by entertaining historical anecdotes. This sixth edition, fully updated for 2020 by editor Beth Chapple and geologist Jo-Ann Sherwin, includes which geysers and hot springs are active, the new overlooks at Grand Prismatic Spring and the south rim of the canyon, a new time line of the geology, and explanations of the geological forces like lava flows and the Yellowstone hot spot. The book is in full color with 38 new and revised maps. Charts of the facilities and a field guide to the wildlife and wildflowers round out this comprehensive guide to America's first national park. After the first edition won Gold in the Travel Guides category in ForeWord Magazine's 2002 Book of the Year Awards, later editions won Silver in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards in 2010 and 2018.

Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803243057
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park written by Paul Schullery and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does a beloved institution need its own myths to survive? Can conservationists avoid turning their heroes into legends? Should they try? Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society’s vision seemed focused on only greed and growth. Perhaps that is why the park’s “creation myth” portrayed a few saintlike pioneer conservationists laboring to set aside this unique wilderness against all odds. In fact, the establishment of Yellowstone was the result of complex social, scientific, economic, and aesthetic forces. Its creators were not saints but mortal humans with the full range of ideals and impulses known to the species. Authors Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey, both longtime students of Yellowstone’s complex history, present the first full account of how the fairy tale origins of the park found universal public acceptance and the long, painful process by which the myth was reconsidered and replaced with a more realistic and ultimately more satisfying story. In this evocative exploration of Yellowstone’s creation myth, the authors trace the evolution of the legend, its rise to incontrovertible truth, and its revelation as a mysterious and troubling episode that remains part folklore, part wish, and part history. This study demonstrates the passions stirred by any challenge to cherished national memories, just as it honors the ideals and dreams represented by our national myths.

Author : Frank D. Carpenter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wonders of Geyser Land written by Frank D. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: