Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, Second Edition

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a b Kalt, Brian C. (2008). "Tabloid Constitutionalism: How a Bill Doesn't Become a Law". The Georgetown Law Journal. 96 (6): 1971, 1975–78. SSRN 1136301. Archived from the original on September 1, 2015 – via the Michigan State University School of Law. The book may appear daunting, but only about 3/4 of it are stories. The last quarter is dedicated to end notes and more information about the cemeteries of Yellowstone. But it was in 1991 when Whittlesey worked for a tour bus company that the idea of “Death in Yellowstone” was born. A group of guides sat talking about the books someone should write about the park when someone mentioned all the ways people died in Yellowstone. With third-degree burns covering his entire body, emergency responders took Kirwan to the clinic at Old Faithful, where he was treated by a burn specialist who could do nothing at that point except numb the pain. Kirwan died at a Salt Lake City hospital the following morning.

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This book wasn’t bad…it was just very factual. It reads like a series of obituaries and bare facts (and bear facts too!) — less narrative and storytelling and more names, dates, factual notations, newspaper archives, etc. A 23-year-old Portland man slipped and fell into a hot spring near Porkchop Geyser in that incident, which occurred after he and his sister left the boardwalk, the park service has said. Sadly, the above tragic incident was the second known geyser accident in the park in one week. Earlier in the week, a 13-year-old boy was burned on his ankle and foot on June 6, 2016, after his dad slipped while carrying his son near Old Faithful. The father apparently also suffered burns. According to the National Park Service, the duo had walked off the designated trail in the thermal area. The boy was hospitalized following the incident.this book has a fantastic title. i love the word-choice of "foolhardiness", and i thought i would really enjoy reading a book about people doing stupid things and paying for them with their liiiiives. which i think makes me a bad person, but since a lot of these deaths take place in the 1800's, there is enough distance that it makes it less of a character flaw in me, and more of an abiding interest in historical circumstances. is what i am telling myself. but lee h. whittlesey is not going to be stealing the crown of "king of narrative nonfiction" from erik larson anytime soon. this doesn't read like a book anyone would want to curl up with - it is more just a sort of social archive - a list of things that have happened within the park with no authorial voice or unifying thread. a b c d Kalt, Brian C. (2005). "The Perfect Crime". The Georgetown Law Journal. 93 (2): 675. SSRN 691642. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021 – via the Michigan State University College of Law. The first death was likely that of James Joseph Stumbo, a seven-year-old from Montana who fell into a hot spring on a visit to the park in 1890. Children, Whittlesey notes in the book, are frequently involved in hot spring accidents. (A 13-year-old was burned earlier this month after falling into a thermal.) Robert Long was also killed alongside Lee Dutton in the first episode of the first season. The two were in a shootout and having killed Lee, Robert was soon shot several times by another member of the Dutton family. Lee’s brother, Kayce, killed Robert in retaliation, which weighs on him daily. In the first chapter "Death in Hot Water", it's pretty insane how often people ignore warning signs. Even in 2018, I witnessed a lady step over the warning signs to get a closer look/picture of a hot spring with her phone. Like obviously this is wrong, but people live on the belief that it won't happen to me. More outraging is 'Deaths from Bears', people thought because it was a "park" that the bears were tamed creatures and that they could befriend them. How dumb?!? Why would that ever be a thing. I'm afraid of dogs that are roaming by themselves on the streets...I couldn't imagine walking into a BEAR and being like "look how cute he is?!?". Wow some people.

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There have been at least 22 known deaths related to thermal features in Yellowstone since 1890, park officials said in 2016 when an Oregon man fell in a hot spring and died.Wilderness is not just another product or commodity to be made safe to prevent product liability litigation. For without those dangers, it would not really be wilderness." The book strives for a balance between, on the one hand, ensuring visitor safety and preserving wilderness, and on the other hand, entertaining us with stories of massive ignorance that he knows full well will make us shake our heads and snort with laughter. He’s not the best nonfiction story writer, he's not a great storyteller or even writer, but I was distracted for awhile by it from all the other things that can kill me. No records exist of Native American injuries or deaths from hot springs, Whittlesey says, though “perhaps it happened.” Before Europeans arrived in the 19th century, according to the park’s official history, local tribes used the hydrothermal waters for medicinal, religious, and practical purposes for hundreds of years. The Dragon’s Mouth stream vent, near the Mud Volcano, was where the Kiowa tribe believed their creator bestowed upon them the Yellowstone area as their home; the Tukudika dipped sheep horns into the springs to make them pliable and suitable for bows.

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By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. At many points in the book, Whittlesey warned his readers that Yellowstone is not an amusement park full of tame animals and guardrails on the trails. It’s a place full of hidden and obvious dangers, he said, which is why he felt compelled to share his cautionary tale while also capturing the park’s colorful history.Of course, he decided to cross John, which wouldn’t fly. He taunted those who worked for John, harming two fan-favorite ranch hands, and it was at that moment that John knew Morrow couldn’t keep on.