| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides. By Lee H. Whittlesey. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xiv + 377 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $27.95.)

Yellowstone National Park historian Lee H. Whittlesey has authored numerous books on various aspects of America's first national park. His latest effort, Storytelling in Yellowstone, offers readers a wide-ranging ramble through Yellowstone's tourist landscape over the course of its first five decades. Whittlesey chronicles the ways in which Native Americans, fur trappers and mountain men, early park officials, guidebook and travel book writers, private concessionaires, and visitors themselves spoke and wrote about the Yellowstone region. The writing is grounded in extensive primary source accounts culled from this broad spectrum of travelers and park mavens, which, by 1920, had collectively established the central themes and patterns of the Yellowstone tourist experience. Whittlesey makes clear that the interpretation of the park began not with the arrival of the National Park Service in 1916, but with the preceding generation of park enthusiasts. Thirty-seven photographs and voluminous anecdotes help to make this a vivid and colorful contribution to the history of Yellowstone's formative period.

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