Mr. Edward H. Moorman's notes on years soent [sic] in Yellowstone National Park, 1954 Apr 2.

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Mr. Edward H. Moorman's notes on years soent [sic] in Yellowstone National Park, 1954 Apr 2.

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Typescript biography describing the career of a tourist camp employee and eventual manager in Yellowstone National Park. He details early years in the Yellowstone camps including a description of the tour itinerary, the work of a camp hand (which included fending off bears from the commissary tent), and fellow employees. There is much on the history of the camp companies he worked for, and the men in charge of them: W. W. Wylie, A. W. Miles, and F. J. Haynes.

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Moorman, Edward H., 1875-1963

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Moorman left Ohio and arrived in Bozeman, Montana in April, 1899. He was hired by the Wylie Camping Company where he worked a variety of jobs (including camp hand and auditor) during the summer tourist season in Yellowstone National Park. He continued working in Yellowstone for the Yellowstone Park Camping Company, the Yellowstone Park Camps Company, the Yellowstone Park Lodge and Camps Company, and the Yellowstone Park Company, eventually becoming manager of the Lodge and Camps Division for the...

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Wylie Permanent Camping Co.

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Miles, A. W. (Arthur Wellington), 1859-1933

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Arthur Wellington Miles came to Montana in 1880 while serving as army paymaster at Fort Keogh near present-day Miles City. Following his resignation from the army, Miles started a hardware business at Coulson and, by 1882, opened a similar business in Billings. Later in that year he joined Col. A.L. Babcock in creating the Bozeman firm, Babcock & Miles. During the winter of 1882-1883, Miles opened his first business in Livingston. By 1893 the partnership with Babcock was severed...

Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921

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F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), a photographer who traveled extensively in the West, was best known for his early photographs of Yellowstone National Park. In the 1870s and 1880s, Haynes operated studios in Moorhead, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, and St. Paul, Minnesota. As the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad, he maintained the "Haynes Palace Studio," a special railroad car equipped as a mobile photography studio. In 1891, when tourist travel to Alaska was on the rise, Hayne...

Yellowstone Park Camping Company

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Yellowstone Park Camps Company

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Wylie, W. W. (William Wallace)

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Wylie Camping Co. operator, 1893-1905. From the description of W.W. Wylie autobiography. 1926. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 42929272 Yellowstone Park Camping concessionaire, president/owner of Wylie Permanent Camping Co. From the description of Letters, 1898 Jan 30-Mar 2 : to Mary Wylie. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 42929808 William Wallace Wylie (1848-1930) came to Bozeman, Montana fr...