MZFCollection0502.xml Guide to the A Trip Through Yellowstone Park 1895 Yellowstone Park, A Trip Through Kim Allen Scott, 2009 Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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Finding aid encoded by ArchProteus2012 Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 502, MtBC, us Turpin, Frances Lynn A Trip Through Yellowstone Park 1895 1 item A Trip Through Yellowstone Park, is a daily journal of a tour of Yellowstone Park containing a detailed chronicle of the accommodations and the personalities of Mrs. Turpin's fellow travelers and the many individuals they met. It describes the many difficulties encountered during early trips through the Park. Vivid accounts of the natural phenomena and wildlife are also present and her first experiences with camping are described. Collection materials are in English Historical Note

Mrs. Frances Lynn Turpin of St. Louis, Missouri was a member of a party of ten people that toured Yellowstone National Park from August 8 to August 21, 1895. Also in the party were Florence Ballinger's mother Mrs. M.S. Ballinger and her sister, Brunett Ballinger, of Livingston, Montana. Florence Ballinger later created a transcript of the account made by Mrs. Turpin of the trip. Florence was the wife of James M. Hamilton, the third president of Montana State University.

This daily journal of a tour of Yellowstone Park contains a detailed chronicle of the accommodations and the personalities of Mrs. Turpin's fellow travelers and the many individuals they met. It describes the many difficulties encountered during early trips through the Park. Vivid accounts of the natural phenomena and wildlife are also present and her first experiences with camping are described.

This collection is open for research.

Transcribed reminiscence of Frances Lynn Turpin, prepared by Florence Ballinger, was donated to the Montana State University Library by Merrill G. Burlingame for copying in 1967. Mrs. Florence (Ballinger) Hamilton assembled a transcript of the original journal written by Frances Lynn Turpin in 1895. The locations of the original account by Mrs.Turpin and Mrs. Hamilton's original transcript are unknown.

This collection was processed 2009 May 26

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