GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK
George B. Robinson
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 1-58071-075-1
$9.95

This stunningly beautiful, oversized book is lavishly illustrated with breathtaking color imagery by America’s leading landscape photographers. In addition to the stunning photography, the book also includes detailed maps of the park and region and insightful, heartfelt narratives detailing the park’s natural and human histories.

I first saw the Teton Range nearly 60 years ago. I was with my father (who was stationed in the National Park Service Midwest Regional Office in Omaha) on an annual inspection tour of parks in the Central and Northern Rockies in the early 1950s. We were driving west over Togwotee Pass in the Wind River Range when Dad said, “There they are, son!”

The serrated peaks of the Tetons dominated the distant view. I had seen them recently in the movie Shane, but only as a scenic backdrop to the action on screen. These mountains were real, not celluloid images, and their mirrored reflection in Jackson Lake, as we approached Moran Junction, made them appear even more impressive, seeming to rise higher out of the valley floor as I watched.

I had seen and lived in mountains before but their contours had been less severe. These peaks looked more like what I imagined the Swiss Alps to be. That early impression of Jackson Hole, buttressed on the west by the massive Tetons, remains vivid in my memory. It augured a time—long in the future—when I would live and work in nearby Yellowstone National Park and often revisit the scene. I know of no other place that rivals the pure beauty of Jackson Hole and the incredible peaks abruptly rising above it.

…Each time I visit the Tetons, I am reminded that this is what primitive wild America was like. I watch a small herd of bison near Jenny Lake, see a black bear in the distance skirting Emma Matilda Lake, or observe a few hundred elk grazing near Moose Junction. I imagine their numbers multiplied thousands of times. There were that many of these creatures ranging freely across North America when it was known only to indigenous peoples. As beautiful and impressive as these scenes are, they are a sad reminder for me of what we have lost in our progress from wilderness pioneers to citizens of an advanced and powerful nation. As available living space has dwindled, places like Grand Teton have become last refuges for many wild plants and animals.

—From “Grand Teton National Park” by George B. Robinson

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK
George B. Robinson
64 pages. Oversized 10”x13”
ISBN 1-58071-075-1
$9.95