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Review: ★★★★☆

Aspects of this book seemed a bit rambling. Lots of information about the settler history of the park. Surprisingly, a relatively short book.

Notes:

The ground around hot springs can easily give way, so standing too close is dangerous on its own

Dumb people have looked directly into geysers and gotten their faces scalded

Even today people believe the animals are “tame” or “zoo animals”

Yellowstone’s first bear death was by Old Two Toes. 

First 2 deaths by him were of men who tried to trap and kill him (first trap “chopped” 3 of his toes off - hence “Old Two Toes”

Final death was of a man who was attempting to sleep on a pack of bacon

Old Two Toes met his demise when the companions of the bacon man blew him up with TNT and dynamite

2 people died in the summer of 2011 - the most recent bear deaths

Recommended Reading: Chuck Neal - Grizzlies in the Mist

Rules for hiking in bear country:

Don’t hike alone (the more the merrier)

Make noise as you hike (bear bells)

Carry bear spray

No headphones (you need to be able to hear your surroundings)

Avoid bears with cubs

Avoid bear food sources - especially carcasses

Do not startle the bears

2 main poison plants in Yellowstone

Water hemlock

Death camas

6 deadly mushrooms

Death cap

Destroying angel

Conocybe

Cort

Galerina

Conifer false morel

90% of fatal mushroom poisonings are destroying angel… most of the others will just fuck you up

Water hemlock 

is related to and looks like carrots and parsnips. 

is the most poisonous plant in the northern hemisphere. 

Causes severe neurological issues (especially convulsions)

Children have died from blowing “whistles” made from its hollow stems

One mouthful of the root is enough to kill a man

Charles Phillips was a botanist who died of poisoning from water hemlock. Phillip’s Cauldron at Norris Geyser Basin is named for him.

Death Gulch contains hydrogen sulfide in concentrations that can kill grizzlies 

A large group of people were struck by lightning when it struck an erupting geyser and shot under the boardwalk. One lady had her clothes burned off from the force. 

Snowfall in the park averages between 100-400 inches annually

80% of trees in the park are lodgepole pines

A canker is a diseased/dying/dead part of a tree - sometimes refers to a specific disease of the tree

Too many people walking around shallow-rooted trees can “tamp” the earth down and make the trees more likely to fall - it is part of the reason some campgrounds in Yellowstone have no trees

A workman fell and died during the building of the National Hotel at Mammoth Hot Springs. His partner, who also fell, survived and returned to work (1883)

Another workman died building the bridge over the Lamar River, 6 miles east of Tower Junction (1940)

Another man fell 12 ft off a ramp at the Canyon Hotel and died (1953)

Our reaction to wilderness is “an endlessly interesting mixture of sympathy and fear, of love and hostility, of the impulse to embrace and the equally powerful urge to flee” - Phillip Terrie - Forever Wild

Earthquakes occur in the park every day - Yellowstone is so seismically active that where some maps of seismic activity have small black dots, Yellowstone is a large black square

Yellowstone used to have public swimming pools

Gardiner River is deeper and faster than it seems, especially in the summer months

High altitude lakes are very cold and can become very dangerously turbulent in bad weather

A woman went to rangers to report her husband missing after he was late returning from a fishing trip. The ranger was trying to calm her, when she noticed a sapphire that she had placed into her ring (representing her husband) had disappeared/fallen out and she said “something’s happened and he’s gone”. 

Rules for boating on Yellowstone alpine lakes

Stay reasonably close to shore, especially in smaller, shorter boats

Get off the lake for storms

Do not overload canoes

Do not stand up in small fishing boats

The worst time to boat on these lakes are between 1 pm and 6 pm

Life jackets are not enough - if a boat overturns, get out of the water and try to prevent hypothermia

Rules for boating in any body of water

Do not swim or fish alone

Wear a life jacket

Do not combine water activities with alcohol

Beware of fording even small streams, as you don’t know how strong they really are

Fisherman's waders can fill with water and drown you

Native tribes and their relations to the Park:

Shoshones and Bannocks to the west and south

Blackfeet to the north

Crow to the northeast

Sheepeaters the only nation that lived year-round in the park

This book only accounts for white deaths related to settler/native battles - “not much is known” about Native deaths

1839 - Piegan nation (offshoot of Blackfoot) vs 40 hunters/trappers. 

Battle was 2 days and trappers won

Then they continued down a native made trail to a warm spring creek (irony)

General William Sherman sought to make Nez Perce natives pay “for the murders they committed in Idaho, and also be punished as a tribe, for going to war without any justification or provocation” (bro you’re literally stealing their land and killing them but pop off)

The Nez Perce were crossing through Yellowstone to escape genocide/murder/relocation in their homeland

Trischman Murder 

Margaret Trischman cut her youngest son’s throat with a hunting knife and chased her other children with it in an attempt to do the same to them (the other children were present for the murder)

Trischman Knob named for oldest surviving son Harry Trischman

Anna and Elizabeth Trischman ran a curio store and “soda fountain” until 1953, called the “Devil’s Kitchenette” on the upper terraces

Schlosser, Stroup and Baker Murder (1970)

Baker called himself Jesus and would later admit to cannibalism and Satanism

He was on LSD at the time of the murder

He said he “hadn’t been the same” since being electrocuted at age 17

When Schlosser was sleeping, Baker shot him in the head. Then dragged his body to the river, dismembered it, cutting out the heart and eating it. He kept finger bones as a trophy that were later found on him at his arrest

Schlosser was stabbed 27 times

Ishawooa Creek was named for the Shoshone native word meaning “Laying Warm”

People who fall into hot springs disintegrate and can undergo silification

Joe Osimic (or Zimec) disappeared north of the park and no sign was found of him until his skull was found several years later near a lake in the backcountry. Today that lake (north of Yellowstone) is called Little Joe Lake.

“Grist for the mill” = “Par for the course”

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Snowy's Fight the Uwu-ification of Wildlife Masterpost

Wikipedia Articles & News Articles:

Timothy Treadwell

Night of the Grizzlies

Travis the Chimpanzee

Roar (film) - Injuries section

Marius Els

Videos

Sea lion pulling child into water

Bison tossing girl in air [Look in suggested videos for a LOT more "Bison helps tourist FAFO" videos, more than I can list here]

Man gored by elk [Photos of incident, non-graphic]

Deer fighting a man (my best guess deer was sick, as doesn't appear to be a male in rut)

Rabid fox attacks woman

Hawks dive-bombing to protect nest (Shows picture of man with bloody head)

Groundhog bites mayor after being held up to his face

Toddyboya's video "Please Stop Touching Wild Animals"

Not Attacks, But Leave Them Alone

Bison calf dies after tourists load it into car

Tourists remove bear cubs from tree, resulting in their separation from mother

Other

Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey (Book)

Please reblog, and feel free to share any other videos or incidents you know of.

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In case you were wondering about my 2024 reading list, here's whats left...

1. We Have Always Lived in The Castle by Shirley Jackson

2. Giddeon the Ninth by Tasyn Muir

3. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

4. All of the Percy Jackson books

5. Books of Blood Vol 1 by Clive Barker

6. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

8. Will Leave the Galaxy for Good by Yahtzee Crowshaw

9. Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Badboy Parasaurolophus by Chuck Tingle

10. Unwind by Neal Shusterman

11. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

12. Death in Yellowstone by Lee H. Whittlesey

13. Shiver by Junji Ito

14. Soichi by Junji Ito

15. Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington

There's no earthly way I'm getting to all of these this year. Its already May and I've only finished 8 books. But, y'know, ambition...

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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park - Lee H. Whittlesey

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“Some folks require the park’s wildness and yet deny its right to exercise its wildness upon them.” - Lee H. Whittlesey [Death in Yellowstone] (at Ink Attic Tattoo)

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COVID-19 Reading Log, pt. 4

The saga continues!

21. Dangerous Spirits by Shawn Smallman. This book is about the wendigo (referred to as “windigo” throughout—apparently that spelling is more common in Canada). It collects a large number of stories about the wendigo, both from First Nations peoples and from Euro-Canadian sources. The theses of the book include the idea that the wendigo as traditionally envisaged by various Algonquian peoples was often times a threat to the family—it often breaks up marriages, pits children against their parents and can sometimes be nullified via marrying it or by cooperation between family members. It also discusses how the wendigo has changed in the modern era, both by being adopted by Euro-American authors as an embodiment of the dangers of the wilderness, and by modern First Nations authors as a symbol of the consumptive nature of capitalism and industrialism.  To quote Ojibwa scholar Basil Johnston, “…modern Weendigoes wear elegant clothes and comport themselves with an air of cultured and dignified respectability.” Highly recommended.

22. Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist by Robert Damon Schneck. This book gets points for what it is not. Unlike Schneck’s previous book (first published as The President’s Vampire and reissued as The Bye-Bye Man and Other Stories), a third of its length is not taken up by a story treatment for a screenplay poorly disguised as genuine folklore (that would be the titular Bye-Bye Man). The book is a combination of true crime, paranormal and general Ripley’s Believe It or Not! styled weirdness. The best chapters are those that actually do some folkloric analysis instead of just telling the tale. An example being “Bigfoot’s Gold: The Secrets of Ape Canyon”, which posits that the 1924 Ape Canyon proto-Bigfoot has more in common with 19th century stories about using magic to hunt treasure than it does with the cryptozoological literature.

23. Death in Yellowstone: Second Edition by Lee H. Whittlesey. A book I’ve been meaning to get my hands on for a long time—I ordered it when the quarantine started along with some cleaning supplies. The topic is divided up by subject; the first half involves deaths by natural phenomena (such as animal attacks, hot springs and hypothermia), and the second half involves human-caused deaths. Unsurprisingly, many of those latter stories date back to the early days of the park, when it was the first national park in a remote frontier. The book is very well researched, and the author clearly has done a lot of work in sorting through newspapers, army reports, etc. I do wish it had a map of the park, though—I’m a neophyte to Yellowstone, and there are a lot of geographic features rattled off by name in the book.

24. The Art of the B-Movie Poster! edited by Adam Newell. This is a big, glossy coffee table book of advertising art for exploitation movies. It’s sorted by genre—action, science fiction, horror, sex films, etc. Each chapter has a short opening essay about a few posters in particular, and there’s a paragraph of text every few pages. A lot of the text is devoted to talking about how deceptive some of the posters are compared to the contents of their films. Funnily enough, the book falls for at least one: the poster for The Day the Earth Froze appears in a section on alien invasion movies. As any Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan knows, The Day the Earth Froze is the deceptive American retiling of a Finnish fantasy movie, Sampo.

25. The Tree by Colin Tudge. It’s been too long since I’ve read any biology. The Tree is sorted by phylogeny, and the author has a deep appreciation for phylogeny and cladistics—a lengthy chapter is devoted to it in the front part of the book, and it’s one of the better general audience explanations of the subject I’ve read. The book is from 2005, so I don’t know how up to date his phylogeny actually is. The authorial voice is deeply British. And deeply anti-capitalist.

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Books Read in 2019

(An incomplete list- Feb-May happened, and presumably somethings were read in that span, but damned if I wrote them down.)

January

Our National Parks- John Muir

The Magpie Lord- KJ Charles

The Bedlam Stacks- Natasha Pulley

A Case of Possession- KJ Charles 

Flight of Magpies- KJ Charles 

Artemis- Andy Weir

The Picnic, and Other Inimitable Stories- Gerald Durrell

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories- Agatha Christie

The Golden Tresses of the Dead- Alan Bradley

Daughter of Mystery- Heather Rose Jones

June

Cod- Mark Kurlansky

Red Blood & Black Ink- David Dary

Paper- Mark Kurlansky

July

Leviathan- Eric Jay Dolan

The Last Unicorn- Peter S. Beagle

The Thief- Megan Whalen Turner

The Fair Fight- Anna Freeman

Witchmark- C.L. Polk

August

The Man Who Ate His Boots- Anthony Brandt

Child of a Hidden Sea- A.M. Dellamonica

All Systems Red- Martha Wells

The Relic Master- Christopher Buckley

Karen Memory- Elizabeth Bear

Range of Ghosts- Elizabeth Bear

September

The Ghost Map- Steven Johnson

Salt- Mark Kurlansky

October

Death in Yellowstone- Lee H. Whittlesey

November

Walking to Gatlinburg- Howard Frank Mosher

Hydriotaphia- Tony Kushner

Proper English- KJ Charles

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms- Richard Fortey

December

A First Rate Tragedy- Diana Preston

The Lawrence Browne Affair- Cat Sebastian

Storm Front- Jim Butcher

A Gentleman Never Keeps Score- Cat Sebastian

It Takes Two to Tumble- Cat Sebastian

The Soldier's Scoundrel- Cat Sebastian

Gilded Cage- KJ Charles

River of Teeth & Taste of Marrow- Sarah Gailey

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Death in Yellowstone Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park Lee H. Whittlesey Genre: Nature Price: $9.99 Publish Date: January 7, 2014 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Seller: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the sometimes gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of a classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011, as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000 in which the Park Service was sued for negligence. http://bit.ly/2F18ZN1

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Yellowstone National Park Established

On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act, which established the Yellowstone National Park, the first national park.

Photo: By Henry Wellge (1850-1917) (David Rumsey Map Collection) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Death In Yellowstone:  Accidents And Foolhardiness In The First National Park, by Lee H. Whittlesey

While this book is enjoyable to read in the sense that it is sometimes fun to enjoy the suffering of people who happen to be stupid and reckless, there is a distinctly uncharitable aspect to this particular book and the approach of its author.  There are a variety of ways to approach the reality of…