Ho! For Wonderland: Travelers’ Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914

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Since it became the world’s first national park in 1872, Yellowstone has welcomed tourists from all corners of the globe who returned to their hometowns and countries with reports of this American wonderland. Stories from the park’s earliest visitors started to spread so hastily that by 1897 Yellowstone became solidly established as a successful tourist destination with more than ten thousand tourists passing through its entrances.

Travelers in the park’s first years faced long, dusty, and tediously slow stagecoach trips and could make a selection only between somewhat primitive hotels and tent camps for their overnight accommodations. Devoured by nineteenth-century readers, most of the narratives from this era are long forgotten today and are only steadily being recovered from historical archives. Park historians Lee Whittlesey and Elizabeth Watry have combed thousands of firsthand accounts, selecting nineteen tales that offer unique and engaging perspectives of visitors throughout Yellowstone’s stagecoach era. From an 1873 newspaper serial that represents probably the most earliest park’s recorded trips to the 1914 “Little Journey” that popular author Elbert Hubbard took with his wife Alice, the chronicles included here reveal the enduring captivation that Yellowstone held in the preferred imagination, as it does today.

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