national parks
How Yellowstone Was Saved by a Teddy Roosevelt Dinner Party and a Fake Photo in a Gun Magazine
A chill rain drizzled over guests arriving at Bamie Roosevelt’s midtown brownstone near the corner of Madison Avenue and East 62nd Street in December 1887. There weren’t many of them, but all had two things in common: they were New York’s most influential and rich social elite, and they all loved hunting big game. All were hand-picked by the h
The Passing of the Frontier
"The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved." So begins the first page of this pocket-sized book, introducing the reader to the range, the mines, the cowboys, and cattle trails of the American West.
The author, Emerson Hough, was a journalist who traveled all over the west in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, and witnessed the area transform from wilderness into settled states. His articles on buffalo hunting at Yellowstone inspired the support of Congress to pass the National Park Protection Act in 1894.
