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The Miner's Saloon is a popular watering hole in Cooke City, Mont., at the northeast border of Yellowstone National Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love Montana\u2019s many small museums and it looks like I\u2019ll get to preview a brand new one next week in Cooke City, at the northeastern edge of Yellowstone National Park. I\u2019ll be presenting my\u00a0Humanities Montana\u00a0<\/a>Program, \u201cSidesaddles and Geysers,\u201d \u00a0on Saturday, July 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Joe\u2019s Campfire next to the Cooke City Community Center. Joe\u2019s Campfire is part of the new Cooke City Museum and honors a park ranger who used to lecture there on nature and history. I\u2019m thrilled to be carrying on Joe\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

The Cooke City Museum housed inside the Community Center won\u2019t open officially until July 19, but I may get a preview. I sure hope so because its so much fun to see how colorful communities like Cooke City preserve and display their heritage. \u00a0And I know Cooke has an intriguing history.<\/p>\n

Located less than five miles from Yellowstone, Cooke City is a mining town where gold was discovered in 1870. The park was created after that, so Cooke City and park history are entangled. The town is nestled in the rugged Beartooth Mountains and for decades the only way to get there was through Yellowstone Park. The Beartooth Highway that links Cooke City to Red Lodge, Montana, during summer months wasn\u2019t opened until 1936.<\/p>\n

The first bridge across the Yellowstone River was built to provide access to Cooke City. Miners from Cooke City built the first road to the park up Yankee Jim Canyon. In the 1890s, the notorious buffalo poacher, Ed Howell, used Cooke City as his base of operations. I hope I\u2019ll find out lots more about the town next week.<\/p>\n

My presentation, which is part of the\u00a0Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau<\/a>, focuses on women traveling to the park in the 1800s and early 1900s. I\u2019ll begin with\u00a0stories my grandmother used to tell<\/a>\u00a0about her trip to the park in 1909 and her grandfather\u2019s trip there in 1883. Grandma went to the park with her aunt, two brothers and seven cousin. Family lore has it that they took a cow with them to provide milk for the younger children. Grandma told about baking bread in a hot spring and said her father tossed her uncle\u2019s red flannel underwear into Old Faithful to die it pink.<\/p>\n

Then I\u2019ll tell stories about\u00a0the first women to visit Yellowstone Park<\/a>. These brave ladies literally rode sidesaddle through the roadless wilderness in the 1870s. One of the most chilling stories is\u00a0Emma Cowan\u2019s tale of being captured by Indians\u00a0<\/a>in the park. Emma and her family went there in 1877, the year the Nez Perce fled their homeland in hopes of finding freedom in the buffalo country.\u00a0Emma wrote a gripping account of watching Indians shoot her husband, George, in the head, and leaving him for dead, taking her, her sister and their brother captive.<\/p>\n

After recounting Emma\u2019s story, I\u2019ll slow the pace with a different kind of adventure\u2014Eleanor Corthell\u2019s account<\/a>\u00a0of leaving her husband at home and taking their seven children to the park in 1903. By then park roads were good and their was no danger from Indians. But Eleanor still had plenty to contend with while watching her children frolic near geysers and driving bears away from her cook fire.<\/p>\n

Then I\u2019ll tell the store of a treacherous climb down\u00a0Uncle Tom\u2019s Trail<\/a>\u00a0that nearly ended with a woman tumbling down the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. I\u2019ll end with a bit of humor\u2014the story of budding romance when travelers who met on a six-day coach tour have\u00a0a tough time saying good-bye.<\/a><\/p>\n

That should leave time for questions, and maybe an encore. After all, I have a collection of nearly 400 stories of early travel to Yellowstone Park that I could share.\u00a0
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Writer and historian M. Mark Miller is a former reporter and author of\u00a0Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Montana\u2019s many small museums and it looks like I\u2019ll get to preview a brand new one next week in Cooke City, at the northeastern edge of Yellowstone National Park. I\u2019ll be presenting my Humanities Montana Program, \u201cSidesaddles and Geysers,\u201d on Saturday, July 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Joe\u2019s Campfire next to the Cooke City Community Center. Joe\u2019s Campfire is part of the new Cooke City Museum and honors a park ranger who used to lecture there on nature and history. 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