Yellowstone Autumn

Although Yellowstone is our oldest, most iconic, and most popular national park, it is perhaps, in W. D. Wetherell's words, Americas least-known best-known place. Wetherell, arriving at the park on the eve of his fifty-fifth birthday, feels the need to examine where lifes mileage has brought him. In the encounter that follows, a writer entering late middle age confronts not only a magnificent corner of the vast American landscape but also the American experience itself. Detailed in the wise, humorous, and lyrical language that has long distinguished W. D. Wetherells award-winning fiction, this introspective journey merges the fascinating story of Yellowstones history and geography with the authors own storyof marriage and aging, of fatherhood, and of the solace to be found in the beauty of the natural world. Most of all its a loving tribute to Yellowstone in autumn, the season when the park and its glories are absolutely at their peak.