Item: Mary Murphy diary, July 1-30, 1930
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Finding Aid Title: Mary Murphy diary, July 1-30, 1930
Finding Aid Collection Number: 2460
Date Range of Collection: July 1-30, 1930
Creator of Materials: Murphy, Mary
Content Description: The Yellowstone Park diary provides a personal tour of Yellowstone National Park as seen by a tourist. The diary tracks Mary's trip from the time she left home to the time she returned home. The diary provides various facts, figures, and sketches that range from how to differentiate various types of trees to statistics on geyser formations. The diary also provides insights into her personal experiences, such as, eating lunch along the Yellowstone River with prairie dogs as guests, viewing a presentation by a Navaho Indian woman, and observing the feeding habits of bears at the Bear Feeding Grounds near Old Faithful. Mary's journey took her through portions of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Within the diary, she mentions entering the park at Sylvan Pass Lodge and traveling to Fishing Bridge Lodge on Yellowstone Lake. Her journey through Yellowstone touches on the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Mammoth Hot Springs, Morris Geyser Basin, Gibbon Falls, Mud Pots, Paint Pots & Lower Geyser Basin, Grand Prismatic Lake, the Continental Divide, West Thumb, Artist Point, Lookout Point, Grand View, Inspiration Point, Tower Falls, and the Terraces.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv63656
Keywords: yellowstone national park, mary murphy, personal journals and diaries, travel
Subjects: Yellowstone National Park and the Yellowstone ecosystem
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