Chasing Florence Keyser: The Arrival of the Great Depression in Yellowstone National Park

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Yellowstone History Journal general editor Bruce Gourley tells the story of socialite tourist Florence Keyser as the Great Depression shadowed her while she traveled from Pennsylvania to Yellowstone National Park in Montana in August 1931. Gourley uses not only Keyser’s own words, but also those of park superintendent Roger W. Toll, rangers, naturalists, and concessionaires to document the coming of hard times to Wonderland.