From Janet Chapple, author of Yellowstone Treasures, comes this collection of entertaining Yellowstone stories by people traveling for recreation or science who experienced both joy and amazement along the way.

Through Early Yellowstone includes works by:

Nathaniel P. Langford, a leader of the famous 1870 Yellowstone expedition

Billy Hofer, "The only man ever successful enough to go through the Park in winter and intelligent enough to make a newspaper account of it" (Emerson Hough, 1894)

Thoman H. Thomas, a learned Renaissance man whose watercolors come "red-hot from the artist's anvil" (Charles Whitmell, 1885)

Frank D. Lenz, a strong "wheelman" who rode through the park in 1892 as he started a trip around the world.

Ray Stannard Baker, investigative reporter and 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner

Anne Bosworth Greene, an artist and author with "a knack for picturesque, unconventional phrasing" (New York Times review of The Lone Winter, 1923)

Montana native Janet Chapple selected and annotated these travel accounts.  Her love of the park and meticulous research led her to discover the distinctive watercolors by Thomas H. Thomas.  She wrote the award-winning Yellowstone Treasures guidebook and cotranslated from the French Yellowstone, Land of Wonders (2013), an 1883 travelogue by Jules Leclercq.  She and her husband live in Oakland, California.