Mountain Time: A Yellowstone Memoir

by Paul Schullery

Book Overview

"Mountain Time, a thoughtful and often moving work, is not only about Yellowstone as a superb sample of American wildness, . . . but also about a man named Paul Schullery and his relationship to it.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570980373
• ISBN13: 9781570980374
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Publishers
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Memories and musings of Yellowstone

Before becoming the most prolific of Yellowstone's historians, Paul Schullery was a seasonal interpretive ranger in the park. This charming memory of these days has somehow managed to escape being outdated in the 25 years since its original appearance. Schullery combines reminiscences with musings about Yellowstone and its people. He ponders the tourist experience, life as a ranger, the meaning of wilderness, and much else besides. Even when admitting a bit of criticism into his musings, Schullery remains too good natured not to see the best side of Yellowstone and its visitors. Indeed, he can be criticized for thinking too well of the park service, tourists, campgrounds, RVs, and much else besides. (Though he doesn't like RVs either.) This would be a great book to have in your suitcase when visiting Yellowstone. Read it in a rocking chair at Roosevelt.

Living on Mountain Time

As in his other books on Yellowstone, Schullery synthesizes history, science, and memoir into an engaging and engrossing read. I have spent years around the park and this book contained much that was new to me. There is a warmth and a dignity to Schullery's writing that befits our oldest national park. Unusual for an on-the-record Park Service employee, Schullery does have his own opinions. There are friends and enemies. In the twenty years since this book was originally published, the world of Yellowstone has changed. Its greatest threat does not come from extractive and exploitative corporations, nor a complicitous government, nor even from the dingbat Congressional delegation attached to its home states. Rather, it comes from the citizenry that most professes to cherish the resource. People like you and me who are loving it to death, slicing subdivisions into critical habitat in a fevered quest for their piece of the West.Ahhh, but Yellowstone belongs as much to the sunburned bricklayer from Ohio and his sausage-legged wife as it does to me. Schullery understands that this land was made for you and me, no matter how difficult the mediation between user groups. And as the title of the book reminds us, Yellowstone is indeed on mountain time. All the snowmobilers and timber company executives and tree-hugging commies who visit the park this year will be rotting in their graves in a hundred years but Yellowstone will endure in spite of us.

Wonders of Yellowstone

This is a wonderfully engaging book on life in one of natures wonders, Yellowstone National Park. Paul Schullery offers a glimpse into both the life of our oldest National Park, and the life of a park ranger. Schullery gives us opportunity to vicariously know the park and experience the wonders of living and working in this natural cathederal. Schullery is very witty and offers accounts of the crazy encounters of those touring this grand daddy of all natural attractions.This is an engaging and relaxing read.