Natural Stories
John ClaytonNature is story; stories are our nature
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The appalling stories of early 20th century tourists feeding Yellowstone bears
A Yellowstone scrapbook from the Open Parks Network: click here to zoom in at the source.
From the 1920s through the 1960s, people were wild for feeding bears in Yellowstone. The chief reason to visit the national park was to have a bear...
The null story of Jeremiah and Liver-Eatin’ Johns(t)on
Robert Redford in the “Jeremiah Johnson” movie poster (courtesy Wikipedia)
Shortly after I moved to Montana in 1990, a guy in a bar explained to me how he was going to get rich because he had trademarked the name “John Johnston’s Trading P...
We keep telling the wrong founding story of Yellowstone
Truman Everts uses an opera-glass to set a fire, in a pen-and-ink drawing from his account in Scribner’s magazine (courtesy Project Gutenberg).
A few months ago, a friend asked me, “Do you know this story about Truman Everts, lost for week...
What does it mean to be a woman outside?
This week’s story is a conversation with journalist and outdoorswoman Heather Hansman. Today is Publication Day for her book Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild.
John: Let’s dive into the...
The “Trump Interstate” threatens the establishment, not Yellowstone
US Highway 287 in Wyoming (Doug Kerr Creative Commons photo courtesy Flickr)
Once upon a time, a bold new interstate highway was proposed to Yellowstone National Park. It came from outside of establishment planning processes. It had no bud...
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John Clayton is the author of books including Natural Rivals, The Cowboy Girl, and Wonderlandscape. His weekly newsletter Natural Stories tells stories about people in nature.
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