For more than 200 years visitors have been awed by geysers spouting 200 feet high\, canyons \;a thousand feet de ep and a mountain top lake 15 miles long in the area that became \;Yel lowstone National Park in 1872. \; Author M. Mark Miller describes col lecting and \;publishing the stories of adventure and humor in the par k. They include the tales of a \;trapper writing about a geyser in 182 7\, a recent bride captured by Indians in 1877\, and a \;matron leavin g her husband behind and taking their seven to the park in 1903.
\nM . Mark Miller is a fifth-generation Montanan who grew up on a small ranch north of \;Yellowstone Park. His earliest memories are of his grandmot her telling about her trip to the \;park in 1909 and her father and gr andfather&rsquo\;s trip there in 1882. Miller has capitalized on \;his life-long interest in Yellowstone history to assemble anthologies and wri te fiction and \;literary non-fiction about travel there. He is a memb er of the Downers Grove Writers \;Workshop.
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