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Storytelling in Yellowstone: horse and buggy tour guides
2007, University of New Mexico Press
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Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides
March 16, 2007, University of New Mexico Press
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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