Yellowstone Park or Bust!

Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Saratoga on July 1, 1976. It is the recount of Jessie (Cunningham) Miller’s trip to Yellowstone Park in 1915. Jessie is the mother of Alice Parrie Swanson. Alice had several photos she shared with us that did not appear in the 1976 paper, and since this trip was taken 100 years ago, we decided to share it again.

On July 5, 1915, we left Encampment, by covered wagon and horseback to tour Yellowstone Park. In the company were 11 young people (I was 15 at the time) and two chaperones, Mr. and Mrs Charles Boyce and their two children from Rawlins,...

 

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