It quickly became repetitive to detail who drowned, how they drowned, who found them, etc. Some segments didn’t work for me, like the drowning chapter. There’s more, if you can get your imagination flowing into the macabre direction. Here’s a representative list of the ways you could get terminated: Stumbling (or diving!) into hot springs, falling off high places, crushed by a falling tree, freezing /hypothermia, grizzly bears, murders, suicides, accidental shootings, drownings, and a few lesser tier deaths under the noxious fumes/poisonous gasses cluster. It’s a well researched, 2014 second edition effort, with close to 100 pages of notes, and additional bibliography, and extensive index. When you have 750 bears, 4,000 buffaloes, and 10,000 hot springs, and precipitous mountain locations things go wrong, occasionally deadly wrong, and this book chronicles approximately 350 of those end game scenarios. You just might cancel your reservations.ĭeath in Yellowstone details the 350 violent deaths that occurred from the period of 1839-2012. Whittleseyĭon’t be reading this book just before a vacation to Yellowstone National Park. Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H.
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