Death in Yellowstone : accidents and foolhardiness in the first national park /
Covering the sometimes gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our Yellowstone National Park, this updated edition of a classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Roberts Rinehart Publishers, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: Death by nature. Hold fast to your children: death in hot water ; "These animals are not real": the myth that can kill you ; Human deaths from bears and how to keep them from happening ; "Don't eat wild parsnips": death from poisonous plants ; Noxious fumes and a death from poisonous gas ; Freak fatalities: deaths from lightning ; Lying in the snow: deaths from avalanches and freezing ; A Yellowstone mystery: death by cave-in ; Missiles from above: deaths from faling rocks ; "I think that I shall never see..." Yellowstone's deaths from faling trees ; Fatal attraction; deaths from falls ; Deaths from forest fires: smoke chasing can kill ; The gloom of earthquakes: shaky breaky park ; Danger in the water: deaths from drowning
- Part two: Death by man. Clash of cultures: death from Indian battles ; A knockout at Bacon Rind: deaths from fights ; A death from diving ; Wild horses: death from horse, wagon, and stagecoach incidents ; Deaths from accidental and self-defense shootings ; Malice in wonderland: Yellowstone murders ; Powerless in Eden: deaths from suicide ; Missing and presumed dead ; Death from gas store explosions and structural fires ; Death from carbon monoxide poisoning ; Travel in wonderland: death on the road and in the air
- Conclusion: Pay attention and don't sanitize the woods
- Chronology
- Appendix A: Mammoth civilan cemetery
- Appendix B: Fort Yellowstone Army Cemetery
- Appendix C: Gardiner Cemetery on Tinker's Hill
- Appendix D: Other gravesites in Yellowstone Park.