Grand Teton Reader
Published on 31. May 2021
270 pages
978-1-64769-032-8 (ISBN)
Description
Grand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park's natural and human histories through stories of drama and beauty, tragedy and triumph.
Editor Robert Righter has selected thirty-five contributors whose work takes readers from the Tetons' geological origins to the time of Euro-American encroachment and the park's politically tumultuous creation. Selections range from Laine Thom's Shoshone legend of the Snake River and Owen Wister's essay "Great God! I've Just Killed a Bear," to Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson's humorous yet fearful account of crossing the Snake River, and William Owen's first attempt to climb the Grand Teton. Conservationists, naturalists, and environmentalists are also represented: Terry Tempest Williams chronicles her multiyear encounter with her "Range of Memory," and Olaus and Mardy Murie recount the difficulties of "park-making" in an often-hostile human environment.
Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the park's wild beauty and controversial past will want to read these stories by people who lived it.
Editor Robert Righter has selected thirty-five contributors whose work takes readers from the Tetons' geological origins to the time of Euro-American encroachment and the park's politically tumultuous creation. Selections range from Laine Thom's Shoshone legend of the Snake River and Owen Wister's essay "Great God! I've Just Killed a Bear," to Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson's humorous yet fearful account of crossing the Snake River, and William Owen's first attempt to climb the Grand Teton. Conservationists, naturalists, and environmentalists are also represented: Terry Tempest Williams chronicles her multiyear encounter with her "Range of Memory," and Olaus and Mardy Murie recount the difficulties of "park-making" in an often-hostile human environment.
Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the park's wild beauty and controversial past will want to read these stories by people who lived it.
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Robert W. Righter
The Grand Teton Reader
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06/2021
University of Utah Press,U.S.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I: COMING INTO THE COUNTRY
- THE BROKEN EARTH
- THE FIRSTCOMERS
- THE ORIGIN OF THE SNAKE AND YELLOWSTONE RIVERS
- UP THE WINDS, AND OVER THE TETONS
- THE ASCENT OF MOUNT HAYDEN
- CAMPS IN THE TETON BASIN
- PRESIDENT CHESTER ARTHUR'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK AND NORTHWESTERN WYOMING
- Part II: THE PROUD ADVENTURERS
- THE SHOSHONE
- GREAT GOD! I'VE JUST KILLED A BEAR
- AN ELK-HUNTAT TWO-OCEANPASS
- A SUMMER ON THE ROCKIES
- ONE NEVER TIRES OF GAZING AT THE GRAND RANGE
- Part III: SEEING AND SETTLING THE COUNTRY
- OUTFIT AND ADVICE FOR THE-WOMAN-WHO-GOES-HUNTING-WITH-HER-HUSBAND
- THE DIARY OF A DUDE-WRANGLER
- RIVERS, RANCHES, AND RESERVATIONS
- JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
- VITAL LAUGHTER
- THE BET I MADE WITH UNCLE SAM
- A WOMAN'S LIFE IN THE TETON COUNTRY
- Part IV: PRESERVING THE BEAUTY
- THE STARVING ELK OF WYOMING
- VALLEY IN DISCORD
- SAVING THE TETONS
- POSTSCRIPT FOR A PARK
- Part V: THE MOUNTAINS
- THE MATTERHORN OF AMERICA
- TETON CLOUDS AND SHADOWS
- THE SONG OF THE WHITE PELICAN
- AT THE HEIGHT
- "THE EXUM RIDGE" AND "TWO DOGS CLIMB THE GRAND"
- THE TETONS
- Part VI: INSPIRATION FROM THE PARK
- FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON
- THE RANGE OF MEMORY
- "ANTELOPE DREAMING," "7 STARS FOR 7 BEARS," AND "CROSS FIRE"
- SPRING
- JACK WEBER'S CUTTHROAT ADVICE LASTS FOREVER
- ARE WE PAYING ATTENTION?
- GRAND TETON TIMELINE
- FURTHER READING
- SOURCES
