In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.

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Information

Publisher

Bison Books

Year

2020

ISBN

9781496211705

Topic

History

Subtopic

North American History

Index

History

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Lee H. Whittlesey
Acknowledgments
Translators’ Introduction
Translation and Editorial Method
A Note on the Illustrators
Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America’s National Park
Preface
Chapter I. The Land of Wonders
Chapter II. The First Explorations
Chapter III. From the Mississippi to the Yellowstone
Chapter IV. The Upper Yellowstone
Chapter V. Mammoth Springs
Chapter VI. The Gibbon River
Chapter VII. The First Geysers
Chapter VIII. The Firehole
Chapter IX. Old Faithful
Chapter X. Beehive and Giantess
Chapter XI. Along the Firehole
Chapter XII. Land of Wonders and Land of Ice
Chapter XIII. Theory of Geysers
Chapter XIV. Excelsior
Chapter XV. The Indians in the National Park
Chapter XVI. Yellowstone Lake
Chapter XVII. Remarks on Fishing and Hunting
Chapter XVIII. Sulphur Mountain
Chapter XIX. The Falls of the Yellowstone
Chapter XX. Mount Washburn
Conclusion
Works to Consult
Maps
Notes
Translators’ Bibliography
Index