Storytelling in Yellowstone
, by Whittlesey, Lee H.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780826341174 | 0826341179
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/30/2007
Park concessionaires in the 1870s and 1880s helped make Yellowstone National Park the premier tourist destination in the American West. They developed a network of storytelling tour guides and talking stagecoach drivers who conveyed information to travelers. This embryonic promotional system, consisting of hotels, transportation companies, photographers, and tour guides, gave rise to commercial lecturers and guidebook writers who traveled widely to promote the park's wonders. Combined, these various promoters created the base for formal park interpretation, officially instituted in 1920.