Camping out in the Yellowstone, 1882
By: Mary Bradshaw Richards ; edited by William W. Slaughter.
Contributors: Slaughter, William W., 1952-
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Camping -- Yellowstone National Park -- History -- 19th century.; Yellowstone National Park.
Description: Camping Out in the Yellowstone, 1882 describes the park at a time when Yellowstone was truly an "out-back and beyond" experience. Writing just five years after the army chased the Nez Perce Indians through the area, and only ten years after the parks's establishment, Mary Richards provides a vivid picture of the undeveloped and untouristed Yellowstone Park: Fire Hole Basin, Mammoth Hot Springs, Lower Falls, and the Excelsior Geyser, now defunct but mightier at the time than Old Faithful.

Augmented by twenty-eight contemporary photographs, Camping Out in the Yellowstone offers a fascinating perspective for present-day park lovers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally appeared as eleven articles in the Salem observer.