Recommended Reading About Yellowstone
Wolves
● American Wolf – Nate Blakeslee (2017)
● The Grand Lady of Yellowstone and Other Yellowstone Wolf Stories – Brad Bulin (2020)
● The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone's Underdog - Rick McIntyre (2019)
● Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park – Douglas Smith et al (2020)
● Wolfer: A Memoir – Carter Niemeyer (2010)
Wildlife / Ecology
● Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance – Stephen Herrero (1988, 2002)
● Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Kimmerer (2013)
● Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History – Dan Flores (2016)
● Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter – Ben Goldfarb (2018)
● Ice, Fire, and Nutcrackers: A Rocky Mountain Ecology – George Constantz (2014)
● Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds – Scott Weidensaul (1999)
● To Save the Wild Bison: Life on the Edge in Yellowstone – Mary Ann Franke (2005)
● The Wolverine Way – Douglas Chadwick (2009)
● Yellowstone's Wildlife in Translation – PJ White, editor (2013)
Winter
● In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter’s Immersion in Wild Yellowstone – Rick Lamplugh (2014)
● Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology – Peter J. Marchand (1987)
● Snowshoes, Coaches, and Cross Country Skis – Jeff Henry (2011)
● Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival – Heinrich Bernd (2009)
● Winter: An Ecological Handbook – James Halfpenny & Roy Douglas Ozanne (1989)
● Yellowstone Has Teeth – Marjane Ambler (2013)
● Yellowstone Ski Pioneers: Peril and Heroism on the Winter Trail – Paul Schullery (1995)
Yellowstone History
● Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park – Lee Whittlesey (1995, 2014)
● Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone – George Black (2012)
● The Indians of Yellowstone Park – Joel C. Janetski (1987)
● Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts’s Thirty Seven Days of Peril – Lee Whittlesey (2002)
Working in Yellowstone
● Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir – James Perry (2009)
Nature Writing
● The Hour of Land – Terry Tempest Williams (2016)
● Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Annie Dillard (1974)
● Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold (1949)
● Small Wonder – Barbara Kingsolver (2002)
Engaging with Nature
● The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling – John Muir Laws (2016)
● The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs – Tristan Gooley (2015)
● Wilderness and the American Mind – Roderick Nash (1967, 2014)
Fiction Set in Yellowstone
● Alpha Female – April Christofferson (2009)
● Free Fire – CJ Box (2007)
Periodicals
● Yellowstone Science: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/yellowstonescience/index.htm