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Montana author M. Mark Miller was featured on C-SPAN over the weekend discussing his book, Adventures in Yellowstone, on the cable channel's Book TV. Miller, who regularly contributes historic tales of early travel in Yellowstone National Park to Yellowstone Gate, reports that he saw a bump in book sales after the show aired. Continue Reading →
Visitors to Yellowstone National Park typically go home with a story or two to share about wildlife, wilderness or wide-open spaces. But with modern vehicles, hotels and even smartphones and laptops, their experiences are usually a far cry from the frontier adventures of the park’s earliest visitors. Those first tourists entered a park that lacked not only hotels and restaurants, but boardwalks and even roads. For Montana writer and historian M. Mark Miller, who will sign books this weekend and next at Old Faithful Inn, sharing those tales of early travel in Yellowstone is a passionate pursuit that has deep personal roots. M. Mark Miller
Miller recalls hearing stories from his grandmother about her 1909 trip to the park, as well as her recollections of Miller’s great-grandfather’s work surveying the park’s northern boundary in 1882. Continue Reading →
How many present-day elected officials have been elk hunting? If you're asking the question of politicians around the greater Yellowstone area, the answer is probably "quite a few." Hunting is a part of the local culture around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. But not so much in much of America's urban areas today. It's no secret that Theodore Roosevelt was an avid outdoorsman and enthusiastic big game hunter. But in a great excerpt unearthed by author and historian M. Mark Miller, Roosevelt describes catching a whiff of an elk while on the hunt in 1891. (Roosevelt even offers an account of the animal's differing aroma while in rut.) Continue Reading →