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Author Whittlesey, Lee H.

Title Death in Yellowstone : accidents and foolhardiness in the first national park / Lee H. Whittlesey. [Boundless electronic resource]

Edition 2.
Publication Info. Roberts Rinehart Pub., 2014.
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Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Second Edition; Original Introduction and Recent Additions; Part I: Death by Nature; Chapter 01. Hold Fast to Your Children; Chapter 02. "These Animals Are Not Real"; Chapter 03. Human Deaths from Bears and How to Keep Them from Happening; Chapter 04. "Don't Eat Wild Parsnips"; Chapter 05. Noxious Fumes and a Death from Poisonous Gas; Chapter 06. Freak Fatalities; Chapter 07. Lying in the Snow; Chapter 08. A Yellowstone Mystery; Chapter 09. Missiles from Above; Chapter 10. "I Think That I Shall Never See . . ."; Chapter 11. Fatal Attraction.
Chapter 12. Deaths from Forest FiresChapter 13. The Gloom of Earthquakes; Chapter 14. Danger in the Water; Part II: Death by Man; Chapter 15. Clash of Cultures; Chapter 16. A Knockout at Bacon Rind; Chapter 17. A Death from Diving; Chapter 18. Wild Horses; Chapter 19. Deaths from Accidental and Self-Defense Shootings; Chapter 20. Malice in Wonderland; Chapter 21. Powerless in Eden; Chapter 22. Missing and Presumed Dead; Chapter 23. Deaths from Gas Stove Explosions and Structural Fires; Chapter 24. Deaths from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning; Chapter 25. Travel in Wonderland.
Conclusions: Pay Attention and Don't Sanitize the WoodsChronology; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary "The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the sometimes gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, 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 accident in 2000 in which the Park Service was sued for negligence"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Violent deaths -- Yellowstone National Park -- Anecdotes.
Accidents -- Yellowstone National Park -- Anecdotes.
Accidents -- Yellowstone National Park -- Prevention.
Accidents.
Accidents -- Prevention.
Violent deaths.
Yellowstone National Park -- History -- Anecdotes.
United States -- Yellowstone National Park.
Genre Electronic books.
Anecdotes.
History.
Added Author Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN 9781570984518 : $23.99
1570984514 : $23.99
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