Stagecoaches carried visitors to and through Yellowstone National Park for thirty-eight years, from 1887 to 1916, and helped establish Yellowstone as a world-famous travel destination. This book by preeminent historian Lee Whittlesey is an engaging account of stagecoaching's first years in the park.

In lively, often humorous prose, Whittlesey describes the evolution of stagecoach travel in Yellowstone, the colorful men-and women- who ran the stagecoach companies, the types of stagecoaches that carried tourists, and the stagecoach drivers who were "rough and profane but men of undoubted nerve."  Along the way, he shares stories from passengers who were appalled by their drivers, the "bone-rattling" roads, the armed hold-ups, and the relentless dust, yet who were entranced by the wonders of this new Wonderland.