This compilation includes a dozen narratives—journal entries, letters, and diaries—with individual introductions as well as historic photographs, postcards, and woodcuts. From Osborne Russell’s colorful early accounts of the daily lives of mountain men in the 1840s to a story by Eleanor Corthell, who in 1903 took her seven children on a two-month, 1,200-mile tour of the park by wagon, each story opens a new window on a long-overlooked aspect of our nation’s history.