Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park (8 page)

Acknowledgments

I AM A WRITER AND QUICK TO NOTE UNATTRIBUTED
citations of my work. For that reason I’ve tried, in the text, to credit every quote I’ve swiped from another writer. Sometimes, inadvertently, a citation slips by. In general, if something I’ve said makes me look brilliant in the field of geology or biology or science in particular, I probably took it from a book listed in “A Selected Yellowstone Bookshelf.”

Perceptive readers of my work will see echoes of stories I wrote long ago for
Outside
magazine, among others. The long section on backcountry travel in this book appeared, in a shorter and somewhat different form, in
National Geographic Adventure
magazine. The story won the National Magazine Award, which I shared with writer Jack Gorman, who did what is called the service aspects of that piece. You have seen that I am not very interested in service—in telling you how to get there, where to stay, and how much things cost. This is a failing I hope I’ve remedied by listing several books in the back of this one that are entirely devoted to such things.

I am more interested in suggesting ways to think about the park and its significance. I’m especially interested in the exhilaration anyone with a heart feels while walking Yellowstone Park.

About the Author

TIM CAHILL IS THE AUTHOR OF SEVEN PREVIOUS
books, including
Hold the Enlightenment, A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh,
and
Pass the Butterworms.
He is an editor-at-large for
Outside
magazine, and his work appears in
National Geographic Adventure, The New York Times Book Review,
and other national publications. He lives in Montana.

Also in the Crown Journeys Series

Land’s End
by Michael Cunningham

After the Dance
by Edwidge Danticat

City of the Soul
by William Murray

Washington Schlepped Here
by Christopher Buckley

Hallowed Ground
by James M. McPherson

Fugitives and Refugees
by Chuck Palahniuk

Blues City
by Ishmael Reed

Time and Tide
by Frank Conroy

Also by Tim Cahill

Hold the Enlightenment

Dolphins

Pass the Butterworms

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

Pecked to Death by Ducks

Road Fever

A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg

Copyright © 2004 by Tim Cahill

Photograph © 2004 by Galen Rowell/CORBIS.

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Portions of “Backcountry Trails” have appeared in slightly different form in
National Geographic Adventure
magazine.

Map by Jackie Aher

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cahill, Tim.

  Lost in my own backyard: a walk in Yellowstone National Park / Tim Cahill.

1. Yellowstone National Park—Description and travel. 2 Yellowstone National Park—History. 3. Natural history—Yellowstone National Park.
4. Cahill, Tim—Travel—Yellowstone National Park. 5. Walking—Yellowstone National Park. 6. Hiking—Yellowstone National Park.
7. Camping—Yellowstone National Park. I. Title. II. Crown Journeys series

F722.C15  2004

978.7'52—dc22  2003025779

eISBN: 978-1-4000-8081-6

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