Posts Tagged ‘Yellowstone’
Letters from Yellowstone by Daine Smith
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith This fiction book came out in 2000, and it won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award for Fiction. In this book, Diane Smith tells the story of a young woman named A. E. (Alexandria) Bartram. A lively young woman and amateur…
Read More30,000 Specimens and One Boiled Leg: Aven Nelson’s Yellowstone Legacy
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. July 26, 1899 On this day, dear garden friends, a tale of botanical ambition and scalding mishap unfolded in the steaming wilderness of Yellowstone, where two young men learned that Mother Nature’s garden…
Read MoreAven Nelson: Father of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium
“The sentry cited the group with multiple infractions – not understanding the botanical work and the materials necessary to collect and archive specimens.” June 24, 1899 On this day, a Yellowstone Park Sentry discovered six people camped beside the Madison River inside Yellowstone National Park. The group consisted of Professor and botanist Aven Nelson…
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