Storytelling in Yellowstone
Subtitle: horse and buggy tour guides
By: Lee H. Whittlesey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780826341174
Subjects: Historiography -- Yellowstone National Park -- History; National parks and reserves -- Interpretive programs -- United States -- Case studies; Storytelling -- Yellowstone National Park -- History; Storytellers -- Yellowstone National Park -- Biography; Tour guides (Persons) -- Yellowstone National Park -- Biography; Tourism -- Yellowstone National Park -- History; Yellowstone National Park -- History; Yellowstone National Park -- Historiography; Yellowstone National Park -- Biography
Genres: Case studies.; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: National park interpretation and its roots in early Yellowstone National Park; title: Native Americans : the earliest Yellowstone storytellers; title: Munchausen storytellers : trappers around the campfire; title: "Everyone can understand a picture!" : early Yellowstone photographs tell the stories with images; title: Lectures and lecturers : Langford and later men marry sound and pictures; title: Wonders enumerated and peculiarities noted : early Yellowstone guidebooks and writers; title: "Well dressed, lettered, and affixed" : signs and guideboards in early Yellowstone; title: "A pronounced weakness for geysers" : early geyser "gazers" in Yellowstone; title: Philetus "Windy" Norris : the "first" national park interpreter; title: G.L. Henderson : the other "first" national park interpreter; title: "All them fool tenderfoot questions!" : stories on the Yellowstone grand tour; title: "To point out the way" : early tour guides in Yellowstone; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix 1: "Do you recall your walk in Geyser Basin?"; title: Appendix 2: Livingston enterprise biography of "Geyser" Bill; title: Appendix 3: Petition to the secretary of the Interior to retain P.W. Norris as park superintendent.