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title	:	Lost in the Yellowstone : Truman Everts's Thirty-seven Days of Peril
author	:	Everts, Truman.; Whittlesey, Lee H.
publisher	:	University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780874804812
ebook isbn13	:	9780585134642
language	:	English
subject	Yellowstone National Park--Description and travel, Search and rescue operations--Yellowstone National Park--History--19th century, Everts, Truman,--1816-1901--Journeys--Yellowstone National Park.
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	F722.E93 1995eb
ddc	:	917.87/52
subject	:	Yellowstone National Park--Description and travel, Search and rescue operations--Yellowstone National Park--History--19th century, Everts, Truman,--1816-1901--Journeys--Yellowstone National Park.

Page iii Lost in the Yellowstone Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril" Edited By Lee H. Whittlesey Foreword By Tom Tankersley UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS Salt Lake City

Page iv 1995 by the University of Utah Press All rights reserved Printed on acid-free paper LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Everts, Truman, 1816-1901. [Thirty-seven days of peril] Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's thirty-seven days of peril / edited by Lee H. Whittlesey; foreword by Tom Tankersley. p. cm. Previously published : Thirty-seven days of peril. 1923. ISBN 0-87480-481-7 I. Yellowstone National Park-Description and travel. 2. Search and rescue operationsYellowstone National Park-History19th century. 3. Everts, Truman, 1816-1891JourneysYellowstone National Park. I. Whittlesey, Lee H., 1950- . II. Title. F722.E93 1995 917.87'52-dc20 95-23911

Page v Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Thirty-Seven Days of Peril 1 Afterword 51

Page vii Foreword DURING THE SUMMER OF 1870, Truman Everts entered Yellowstone as a member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition. He stated that the many "marvelous" and "strange" tales about the region had provoked his curiosity to explore it. Little did he know of the historic legacy he would leave or that his own marvelous and strange story would become so entrenched in the literature of Yellowstone. Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril" is one of those compelling tales that needs to be saved and read by each generation. It is the account of a lost, nearsighted, inexperienced woodsman who travels confusedly for more than a month over fifty miles of the Yellowstone wilderness, an adventure filled with fluctuating drama, humor, and suspense. Each day for thirty-seven days, Truman Everts, an unlikely hero faced with seemingly overwhelming obstacles, has to reach within himself and find the resources and will to keep going. The Yellowstone wilderness is a harsh and unmerciful environment that contrasts with and enhances its unparalleled beauty. It was created by the cumulative effects of cataclysmic and dynamic

Page viii geological forces. Today we have our own associations with the place, and we share with it a much different relationship than did Everts. But, if we are somewhat familiar with nature and the Yellowstone landscape, we are likely to understand the adage that "nature is not gentle." Shortly after the park's establishment, Thomas E. Sherman, son of General William T. Sherman, while viewing the Yellowstone Plateau, wrote, "Society in general goes to the mountains not to fast but to feast and leaves their glaciers covered with chicken bones and eggshells." While it may have been Truman Everts's desire to feast in Yellowstone wilderness, it was not his fate. Since the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, Yellowstone has become a part of this nation's character. While Yellowstone is a place where we can go to refresh our minds and renew our spirits, today over three million visitors come to this great park annually. And while most of us share some inspirational relationships with Yellowstone, we rarely experience it alone. As we explore Yellowstone's awe and wonder, we are rarely a stone's throw away from civilization. Our physical needs have been taken into consideration, possible extenuating circumstances have been calculated for us, and thus the National Park Service protects us from the park. For most of us who visit Yellowstone today, various traumas of the Yellowstone experience might be illustrated by long lines at fast food restaurants, by the deplorable condition of the park roads, or by the poor timing of Old Faithful's next eruptionall of which throw us off our tight schedules. Because

Page ix most of us travel through the park on a road system, chuckholed as it may be and long as it may take, it is difficult for us to realize that we have only experienced about two percent of the park. Just beyond the roadsides and boardwalks is the Yellowstone that Truman Everts experienced true wilderness. While the definitions of a wilderness may vary, Yellowstone fits most of them. Wilderness might simply be defined as a large, wild tract of land covered with dense vegetation and forest. However, Webster's definition of wilderness reflects Truman Everts's experience: "Something likened to a wild region in its bewildering vastness, perilousness, or unchecked profusion." For those that have hiked Yellowstone's backcountry, Webster's definition and Everts's descriptions will sound familiar. The tangle of fallen lodgepole pines at times still causes disorientation to the most experienced hiker. The sounds of wild animals in the night can still send chills down the spine. The dangers here are inherent, because Yellowstone is indeed vast, perilous, and unchecked.

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