Yellowstone's Howard Eaton Trail
Meyer J. 2017. Yellowstone's Howard Eaton Trail. The Western Historical Quarterly. 48(2):191-195
Quite by chance, as a graduate student in 1980, I landed a summer job as a tour guide in Yellowstone National Park. At the time, I knew very little about the park and won the coveted position primarily because I could speak German. This was before there was a European Union, and because the German Deutschmark was strong against the U.S. dollar, Germans were arriving in U.S. national parks quite literally by the (tour) busloads. One season in the park turned into two, and eventually my dissertation grew out of six seasons of living and working in the park. Recently, I started a research project on Yellowstone’s Howard Eaton Trail (HET) and assumed I had a head start, because I was an insider, someone already familiar...
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Meyer, Judith
- Units
- YELL
- Keywords
- experience, HET, history, Howard Eaton Trail, research
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Human Use | Visitor and Recreation Use | Visitor Use , Ecological Framework: Human Use | Cultural Landscapes | Cultural Landscapes