As an early conservationist and outdoors reporter, author Emerson Hough helped complete one of the first comprehensive surveys of the Yellowstone in 1893. Based on his experiences there, he penned this humorous piece, which affectionately describes the first wave of salt-of-the-earth families from Middle America who picked the sprawling park as a vacation destination.
As an early conservationist and outdoors reporter, author Emerson Hough helped complete one of the first comprehensive surveys of the Yellowstone in 1893. Based on his experiences there, he penned this humorous piece, which affectionately describes the first wave of salt-of-the-earth families from Middle America who picked the sprawling park as a vacation destination.