This book offers an inside look at over 30 interesting and unusual episodes that shaped the history of Yellowstone Park. Read about the making of "Wonderland" over 600,000 years ago. Try to piece together the Great Stagecoach Robbery of 1908. Discover why fishing at Fishing Bridge has been banned since 1973.
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Erin H. Turner is a writer, editor, and author of It Happened in Northern California and More than Petticoats: Remarkable California Women. She has a degree in history and gender and women's studies from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and has traveled extensively throughout the West.
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The Making of Wonderland?600,000 Years Ago
The Change of the Seasons?1800
Joe Meek's Escape?1829
It Didn't Happen in Yellowstone?1866
Thirty-seven Days Alone in Yellowstone?1870
The National Park Idea?1872
Emma Cowan and the Nez Perce?1877
An Ordinary Journey?1883
Lieutenant Kingman's Dream?1883
Documenting the Park?1887
Soldiering in the Park?1889
Saving the Buffalo?1902
The Serpent Enters Eden?1902
For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People?1903
A Typical Tour Through Wonderland?1904
The Great Stagecoach Robbery?1908
Murder in Yellowstone?1912
Marguerite Lindsley Comes Home?1923
A Fatal Mistake?1927
When the Mountain Fell?1959
The Family of the Bear?1966
No Fishing Allowed?1973
Let It Burn?1988
The Return of the Wolf?1995
Steamboat Geyser Erupts?2000
Night of the Grizzlies?Yellowstone--2010