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Elizabeth Watry, author of “Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legacies and Legends of Yellowstone National Park,” has been honored with an award for profiles of women who were influential in the park’s early days.<\/p>\n

The WILLA award, named in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, is sponsored by Women Writing the West. The award represents the best of published literature for women’s or girls’ stories set in the North American West, according to a statement released by Riverbend Publishing of Helena, Mont.<\/p>\n

\"women-wonderland\"<\/a>“Women in Wonderland<\/a>” profiles 12 women who played important roles in the park’s history and development, from early hoteliers to groundbreaking government biologists.<\/p>\n

“Most (of the women in the book) spent decades as rangers, scientists, interpreters, and entrepreneurs, shaping the park\u2019s physical and cultural landscape,\u201d said Dr. Mary Murphy, Montana State University historian and author of \u201cHope in Hard Times.\u201d \u201cThis is a wonderful \u2018hidden\u2019 history, full of surprising stories, grounded in intensive research and written with charm.”<\/p>\n

The women rangers in the book include Marguerite \u201cPeg\u201d Arnold, an intrepid adventurer who drove a Harley Davidson motorcycle from Philadelphia to Yellowstone in 1924 and was the first woman to become a permanent ranger in the National Park Service. Also featured is Dr. Mary Meagher, an expert on Yellowstone\u2019s bison and overall park ecology, who blazed a path for women scientists in the park service. Among the early pioneers in the tourist trade were sisters Anna Trischman Pryor and Belle Trischman with their \u201cDevil\u2019s Kitchenette,\u201d and Ida \u201cMom\u201d Eagle of the Eagle\u2019s Store in West Yellowstone.<\/p>\n

Diane Smith, author of “Letters from Yellowstone,” said the book “places women front and center in the park\u2019s wondrous history” Paul Schullery, author of “Mountain Tim” and \u201cSearching for Yellowstone,\u201d called it a \u201cconsistently engaging\u201d book, and Yellowstone historian Lee Whittlesey praised the book \u201cfor its noteworthy contribution to women\u2019s history.” The book includes numerous black and white photographs of the women and their lives in the park.<\/p>\n

The book won the award for scholarly nonfiction. The other category finalists in the 15th annual competition were “Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women’s National Indian Association” by Valerie Sherer Mathes (Texas Tech University Press) and “Colorado Women: A History” by Gail M. Beaton (University Press of Colorado).<\/p>\n

The awards are judged by professional librarians at colleges, universities, public libraries and research institutions. Women Writing the West\u00a0is a nonprofit association of writers and other literature-oriented professionals, writing and promoting the women’s West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Watry, author of “Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legacies and Legends of Yellowstone National Park,” has been honored with an award for profiles of women who were influential in the park’s early days.<\/p>\n

The WILLA award, named in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather, is sponsored by Women Writing the West. 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