Jim Bridger wasn’t the first mountain man to visit Yellowstone, but he had a better publicist than John Colter. Near the end of his life, he told many wild stories about his explorations, some of which may actually have been true. None of the stories told in this little booklet fall into that category.

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According to the 1931 booklet, the nine “whimsical stories” within were reprinted from a 1922 book, The Bozeman Trail, Volume 2, which can be downloaded (along with volume 1) from archive.org. The booklet also “acknowledges” a book by Hiram Martin Chittenden, The Yellowstone Park, which is also available for download in versions ranging from 1912 to 1918.