Wonders of Yellowstone

Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America’s National Park, by Jules Leclercq, is a description of Yellowstone National Park as of 1883, translated from the French. That year, the Northern Pacific made Yellowstone readily accessible; 5,000 tourists came, including President Chester A. Arthur, ex-President Ulysses S. Grant and a Belgian travel writer, Leclercq. He apparently never met a geyser he didn’t like, telling us, perhaps, more than we need to know. However, he also ex