EMPIRE OF SHADOWS The Epic Story of Yellowstone

摘要

Columns of Boiling Water Shooting 100 Feet Into The Air? Underground explosions shaking the earth like distant artillery? Fish swimming in both directions in the same river, some bound for the Atlantic and others for the Pacific? For nineteenth-century pioneers, adventurers, and scientists, the valley of the upper Yellowstone was the most mysterious and myth-laden corner of the western frontier, and the urge to explore it became an obsession. But before these men could reach their goal, the frontier had to be settled and "civilized," and the hostile tribes that blocked the paths to the great volcanic caldera had to be brought to heel.