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Yellowstone National Park, Camping--Yellowstone National Park--History--19th century.
publication date
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1994
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F722.R515 1994eb
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796.54/09787/52
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Yellowstone National Park, Camping--Yellowstone National Park--History--19th century.
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Camping Out in the Yellowstone 1882
Mary Bradshaw Richards
Edited By William W. Slaughter
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS Salt Lake City
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1994 William W. Slaughter All rights reserved Printed on acid-free paper
Map by Thomas Child
CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Richards, Mary Bradshaw, b. 1825. Camping out in the Yellowstone, 1882 / Mary Bradshaw Richards; edited by William W. Slaughter. p. Cm. Originally appeared as eleven articles in the Salem observer. ISBN 0-87480-449-3 (paper: acid-free paper) 1. Yellowstone National Park. 2. Camping-Yellowstone National Park-History-19th century, I. Slaughter, William W., 1952 II. Title. F722.R515 1994 796. 54'09787'52-dc20 93-46 1 35
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To my parents, Evelyn O. Slaughter and Solomon W. Slaughter who first took me to Yellowstone,
and to all who love Yellowstone: "What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet." Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1881)
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CONTENTS
Introduction
ix
Camping Out In The Yellowstone
Map
2
Salt Lake City
3
The Journey Begun
17
Making Rapid Progress
25
In Geyserland
31
Tramping and Camping
45
Wonders of the Park
59
Indescribable Beauties
67
Yellowstone Canyon
73
Two Extremes
83
Drawing to a Close
89
Last Sunday in Camp
97
Acknowledgments
107
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INTRODUCTION
In the summer of 1882 Mary Bradshaw Richards and her husband, Jesse Mayne Richards, traveled to Yellowstone National Park from their home in New York City. 1 They were not a young couple; she was 57 years old and he would be 54 come October. They journeyed not as VIPs or as hardened western explorers but as mature and experienced tourists who were eager to see America's new "Wonderland." Mary captured what she saw and felt in a series of letters to the Salem Observer of Massachusetts. The timing of their trip is significant because it occurred in the transitional period after Yellowstone was a truly "out-back and beyond" experience and before the park began to be developed with improved roads, hotels, and services.
1 "Hotel Arrivals," The Salt Lake Daily Tribune (28 July 1882):4 The list stated that "J. M. Richards and wife, New York" were registered at the Continental Hotel.
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The America the Richards traveled through in 1882 was a place of change intermixed with traditional ways. Chester A. Arthur was the nation's twenty-first president. The first Labor Day was celebrated that year as 30,000 workers marched in New York City. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which created a ten-year ban on Chinese immigration into the United States. Distinguished literary figures Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson died within a month of each other; and Jesse James was murdered by Robert Ford. Future president Franklin D. Roosevelt was born. In Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric plant was built.
In the East, John D. Rockefeller created the first "trust" when he formed the Standard Oil Company. Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper was published. New York City caught "Langtry fever" as the stunning actress Lillie Langtry made her debut on the American stage. The world's first electrically lighted Christmas tree was introduced in New York.
In the West, many of the ranchlands and farmlands were plagued by drought. The Cowboy was beginning to pass into legend as the era of the long trail drive gave way to barbed wire and big business, but twenty-two-year-old Butch Cassidy was just establishing himself as a famed outlaw. The Mormons were worrying about the consequences of the newly enacted Edmunds antipolygamy law. And Yellowstone National Park was ten years old, still wild and full of wonders. In order to appreciate the Richards' journey to this magical land, it is helpful to take a look at its history.
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