Yellowstone books
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I’m planning a backcountry camping trip to Yellowstone and some of the un-crowded areas of the park for 2014 summer. I have read all the guide books and what you would call “how to”……However I’m really looking to get as much as I can out of this trip and want to read up on some of the history of Yellowstone, and its visitors. If anyone could recommend some reading for me Id greatly appreciate it.
Also if anyone has done a backcountry trip in this area feel free to email me and give me some tips and direction.
Thanks
Doug
dougd1621@gmail.comNational Geographic Park Profiles, Yellowstone Country is a good read with about 100 photos and some history added. There is also a book that is about death in Yellowstone, do not remember the exact title, that will take you through how many went to Yellowstone not to return.
I am not an expert about Yellowstone by any means, but if you walk 1/2 mile from most any road you will be in an uncrowded area.
Enjoy the planning and the trip.
Doug, the following books/articles would suit your purposes well. If you don’t want to spend big $$ you can find most of these used from http://www.abebooks.com/. Another good list of books (includes those below) can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Yellowstone_National_Park
Books about Yellowstone Angling:
• Back, Howard (1938). The Waters of the Yellowstone with Rod and Fly. New York: Dodd & Mead.
• Brooks, Charles E. (1984). Fishing Yellowstone Waters. Clinton, NJ: New Win Publishing Inc.. ISBN 0-8329-0353-1.
• Franke, Mary Ann (Fall 1996). “A Grand Experiment-100 Years of Fisheries Management in Yellowstone: Part I”. Yellowstone Science (Yellowstone Center for Resources, National Park Service) 4 (4).
• Mathews, Craig; Molinero, Clayton (1997). The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide—An authoritative guide to the waters of Yellowstone National Park. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press. ISBN 1-55821-545-X.
• Franke, Mary Ann (Winter 1997). “A Grand Experiment Continued-The Tide Turns in the 1950s: Part II”. Yellowstone Science (Yellowstone Center for Resources, National Park Service) 5 (1).
• Parks, Richard (1998). Fishing Yellowstone National Park. Helena, MT: Falcon Press. ISBN 1-56044-625-0.
• Schullery, Paul; Varley, John D. (1998). Yellowstone Fishes—Ecology, History, and Angling in the Park. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 0-8117-2777-7.
Books about Yellowstone History:
• Langford, Nathaniel P. (1905). The Discovery of Yellowstone Park–Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870. St Paul, MN: Frank Jay Haynes.
• Chittenden, Hiram Martin (1918). The Yellowstone Park-Historical and Descriptive. Cincinnati, Ohio: Stewart and Kidd Company Publishers.
• Cook, Charles W.; Folsom, Dave E.; Peterson, William (1965). Haines, Aubrey L.. ed. The Valley of the Upper Yellowstone-An Exploration of the Headwaters of the Yellowstone River in the Year 1869. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Schullery, Paul (1979). Old Yellowstone Days. Boulder, Colorado: Associated University Press.
• Haines, Aubrey L. (1977). The Yellowstone Story-A History of Our First National Park.. Yellowstone National Park, WY: Yellowstone Library and Museum Association.
o Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). The Yellowstone Story-A History of Our First National Park.. I (Second Revised ed.). Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0-87081-391-9.
o Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). The Yellowstone Story-A History of Our First National Park.. II (Second Revised ed.). Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0-87081-391-9.
• Whittlesey, Lee H. (1995). Death in Yellowstone-Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park. Lanham, MD: Robert Rinehart Publishers. ISBN 1570980217.
• Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). Yellowstone Place Names-Mirrors of History. Niwot, Colorado: University of Colorado Press. ISBN 0-87081-383-8.
• Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed. (1999). Yellowstone and the Great West-Journals, Letters and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-3148-2.
• Schullery; Whittlesey, Lee (2003). Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4305-7.
• Whittlesey, Lee H. (2006). Yellowstone Place Names. Gardiner, MT: Wonderland Publishing Company. ISBN 1-59971-716-6.
• Hartley, Robert E. (2007). Saving Yellowstone-The President Arthur Expedition of 1883. Westminster, CO: Sniktau Publications. ISBN 978-1-4257-7121-8.
• Watry, Elizabeth A. (2012). Women in Wonderland-Lives, Legends and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park. Helena, MT: Riverbend Publishing. ISBN 978160630290.
• Bartlett, Richard (1985). Yellowstone: A Wilderness Besieged. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-1098-9
• Chase, Alton (1986). Playing God in Yellowstone-The Destruction of America’s First National Park. Boston, MA: The Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0-87113-025-4.
• Schullery, Paul (1995). Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir. Boulder, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers. ISBN 0-8052-3932-4.
• Schullery, Paul (1997). Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness. Boston: Hougton Mifflin Co.. ISBN 0-395-84174-7.
• Whittlesey, Lee H.; Watry, Elizabeth A. (2009). Ho! For Wonderland-Travelers’ Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914. Abequerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-4616-2.That’s a lot of reading, but all are good titles. The books by Schullery are especially easy to read and informative.
For planning trips I like the National Geographic Trails Illustrated maps. They are big and it’s fun to spread one out on the floor and see the entire park.
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