Death in Yellowstone : Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park (Edition 2) (Paperback)

from TommyB

"Death in Yellowstone" is not really about lurid encounters resulting in gory deaths. Rather, it is an extremely well researched and documented history of fatalities in the Park since it was created in 1872. "Death in Yellowstone" has 284 pages of text; a 7-page chronology; 3 appendices detailing...

from queencersei

"Wilderness is impersonal. It does not care whether you live or die. It does not care how much you love it." That is the salient point of Death in Yellowstone. The oldest of America's national parks and certainly one of the most spectacular. There are many ways to die in Yellowstone. Drowning, fa...

from Cheryl-L-B

This historical overview of fatalities in the nation's first National Park can be rather grim reading at times. There are some truly gruesome cases contained in this volume. Of course, injuries and death can strike anywhere, anytime; however, it was rather appalling to read numerous accounts of p...

from countrylife

I wish I had read this book before our family vacation in Montana. Though we had no problems during our visit to Yellowstone, I would have exercised even more caution. After reading this book, you know: mis-steps can happen. This book chronicles more than 300 deaths which have occurred at Yellows...

from varielle

For those with a streak of ghoulish glee and lovers of catastrophe literature, this is a catalog of the myriad ways people have met their end in the wonderful, but deadly, Yellowstone National Park. I say catalog because the repetition of people doing the same stupid things over and over again ca...