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Camping Out in the Yellowstone, 1882
by Mary B. Richards

Camping Out in the Yellowstone describes the park at a time when Yellowstone was truly an "out-back and beyond" experience. Writing just ten years after the park's establishment, Mary Richards provides a vivid picture of the undeveloped and untouristed Yellowstone.

"Near our camp we found an old weather beaten log cabin. Its roof, formed years ago of pine boughs, has gathered debris of trees, winds and winter's snows, and now is a perfect bed of waving grass and blooming wildflowers. Swallows have colonized its doorless, windowless, floorless, interior. Sides and top are plastered with their nests. We call the birds swallows, as they resemble the New England barn swallow in every respect except color, these being of a dark velvety brown, uniform except at the neck, which has a collar the color of old gold encircling it. They seemed entirely undisturbed by our presence and allowed us to examine unoccupied nests, without a twitter of remonstrance."
--from Camping Out in the Yellowstone, 1882

ZC4493    Camping Out in the Yellowstone, 1882                  $10.95

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