Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides

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Long before snowmobiles, paved roads, and SUVs were introduced into Yellowstone National Park, a myriad of companies offered buggy and stage rides in the course of the Park, with their drivers telling stories to their passengers. A few of these stories had no basis if truth be told, especially those attributed to “Indian legends,” but others came from the early trappers and fur traders and were as informational as they were entertaining.

Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone National Park historian, has devoted years of research to those pre-1920 stories told by the Park’s “tour guides,” or interpreters. He includes the campfire stories of the traders and trappers, Yellowstone as it was once portrayed in early photos and movies, the primary group of Yellowstone guidebooks written, and the “fool tenderfoot questions” posed by the late nineteenth-century tourists. Whittlesey devotes chapters to the primary two National Park interpreters, Philetus “Windy” Norris and G. L. Henderson. Every had his own style of delivery and Every awed his respective tour groups. And, in any case, there are the stagecoach drivers who chauffeured the general public over Yellowstone’s dirt roads and engaged their passengers with tales of the great Geyserland.

Today’s National Park Service has taken over the duties of the “horse and buggy tour guides” but private and concessioner tour guides also share Yellowstone National Park’s many stories.

All creator proceeds from this book are being donated to the National Park Service.

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