Yellowstone Place Names: Mirrors of History

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Until the late nineteenth century, Yellowstone National Park, known for such famous landmarks as Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, and the Firehole River, was once a land in large part unknown, uninhabited, and unnamed. The few maps to be had noted just a handful of major features known from the seasonal visits of trappers and prospectors.
Among the large choice of place names related to Yellowstone National Park are many that mirror the area’s fascinating history. This book devotes chapters to the place names drawn from Native Americans, fur trappers, prospectors, explorers, brand new visitors, park concessionaires and employees, and three special groups: (1) the “unapproved” place names that remain in use regardless, (2) names that have lost their cogency and have disappeared from use, and (3) a group of names from out of doors the park boundary that have all the time been crucial to it.
Each chapter is preceded by a brief review of the historic period and its relationship to the park area. An introduction includes information at the present rules covering the naming of features in Yellowstone, and the sources list more than four hundred references examined for place name history.

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