Index for The Story of Yellowstone

Absaroka Range, 49–50, 52–53, 73–74, 80
Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup era, 35–36, 45, 53, 63
acclimation pens, 91
alligators, 23
Allosaurus, 16, 17
alpacas, 28
Amebelodon, 27
ammonites, 14
andesite, 35
andesitic soil, 57, 63
Ankylosaurus, 20
Apatosaurus, 16, 17
Appalachian Mountains, 33
Apsáalooke, 74
Arctic, 23
arrowheads, 54, 72–73
ashfall, 46, 96, 101
Ashton, Idaho, 46
aspen, 36, 62, 89, 92
asteroids, 3–4, 7, 21–24
atlatls, 72

bald eagles, 93, 111
balsamroot, 75
Bannock Tribe, 76, 78, 81
Bannock Trail, 76
Barronette Peak, 39
Barrow’s goldeneyes, 67
basalt, 4–5, 35, 43
basaltic lava, 43–44, 47, 102
basaltic magma, 43
Battle of Little Bighorn, 80
Bear Paw Battlefield, 81
Bear’s Tooth, 53
bears, 28, 32
Beartooth Mountains, 34–35, 50, 53
Beartooth Plateau, 34
Beartooth uplift, 34
beavers, 26, 29, 56, 89, 93, 110
Bering Land Bridge, 28, 69
Beringia, 69
Bicknell’s geranium, 61
bighorn sheep, 26, 32, 74–76, 83, 85, 94
traps, 76
Biscuit Basin, 105
bison, 20, 29–32, 65–67, 69–72, 74, 76, 78, 82–84, 86–89, 91–93, 95, 110
long-horned, 29
robes, 75
black bears, 30, 32, 64, 66, 85–86, 92
Black Butte, 39
Black Canyon of the Yellowstone River, 55
Blackfeet Nation, 74–75
blue camas, 72, 75
bobcats, 26
boreal owls, 67, 110
bows, 75–76
bows and arrows, 72
brachiopods, 9
broomweed, 72
bryozoans, 9
Bull Lake glaciation, 54
Bunsen Peak, 39, 46, 52

calderas, 42, 44–45, 47, 96, 99, 103, 105
California gulls, 110
camels, 25, 28–31, 57, 69–70
Camptosaurus, 16, 17
canids, 28
Canyon Village, 35
caribou, 29, 31
Caspian terns, 110
chalcedony, 71
cheetahs, 27, 31, 57
Cherokee Nation, 77, 81
chert, 71
Chickasaw Tribe, 77
Chico Hot Springs, 52–53
Chief Joseph, 80
Choctaw Tribe, 77
Clark’s nutcrackers, 63–65, 68, 74
climate change, 63, 65, 93, 107, 109–112
clover, 61
Clovis Culture, 32, 70–71
Colorado River, 111
Colter Peak, 39
Columbia River, 111
comets, 3–4
conglomerate, 37–38, 54
Cooke City, Montana, 35
cottonwoods, 36, 89, 92
cougars, 26, 32, 83–87, 92, 94
coyotes, 25, 66–67, 85–86, 90, 92–93
craters, see calderas
Craters of the Moon lava field, 102
Creek Tribe, 77
Crescent Hill, 71
Cretaceous period, 17–19
crinoids, 9
crocodiles, 14, 16, 18, 23
crossbills, 68
Crow Tribe, 74–75, 80
cutthroat trout, 111
cyanobacteria, 6
cycads, 14–15

Deccan Traps, 22
deer, 25–26, 28–30, 66–67, 71, 83, 85, 87, 92–93, 95, 110, 112
Deinonychus, 19
dinosaurs, 13–20, 22, 24, 45
Diplodocus, 16, 17–18
dolphins, 24
domestic sheep, 85
domesticated dogs, 75–76
double-crested cormorants, 110–111
Douglas fir, 63
drought, 109, 112
Druid Peak, 38
duck-billed platypuses, 23

eagles, 17, 66–67, 93, 111
Earthquake Lake, 103
earthquake swarms, 100, 103
earthquakes, 43–44, 48, 100–101, 103–104
echidnas, 23
Edmontosaurus, 19, 20
Electric Peak, 53
elk, 29, 32, 62, 65–67, 69, 71, 76, 83–93, 95,
110, 112
Elk Creek, 89, 93
Emigrant Gulch, 52
Emigrant, Montana, 35
Endangered Species Act, 92
Engelmann spruce, 57, 63
Excelsior Geyser, 105

fasting beds, 74
felids, 26
fennec foxes, 28
ferns, 15–16
finches, 68
Firehole River, 47
Firehole Valley, 88
fireweed, 61
Fishing Bridge, 71
flickers, 67–68
flycatchers, 68
Fort Hall Reservation, 81
Fort Yellowstone, 81
fossil fuels, 107, 112
fossilized forests, 37
Fountain Flats, 54
foxes, 25, 66–67, 93
frogs, 93, 110
fur trappers, 76–77

Gallatin Mountains, 35, 39, 49, 50, 52–53, 103
Gallatin River, 46
Gallatin Valley, 37
Gambel oak, 109
Gardner River, 46
Gardiner, Montana, 55
geysers, 46, 48, 103–105
Gibbon Falls, 47
Gibbon River, 47
ginkgoes, 14
glacial deposits, 56
glacial flour, 53
glacial horn, 53
glacial till, 56
glaciations, 50, 55, 70
Glacier National Park, 65
glaciers, 49, 51–56, 60, 63, 65, 69, 112–113
gneiss, 34
golden eagles, 93
Golden Gate, 46
gomphotheres, 26–27
Grand Canyon, 100
Grand Teton National Park, 46, 53
granite, 5, 34
Granite Peak, 34
Grant Village, 48
grasslands, 25, 27, 29, 57, 65, 69, 87
Great Plains, 74, 76, 78, 84
Green River, 111
greenhouse gases, 51
grizzly bears, 30, 32, 61, 63–64, 66–67, 69,
83, 86–87, 92–95
ground deformation, 101
ground sloths, 28–29, 31
guanacos, 28

habitat loss, 112
hawks, 66
Hayden Valley, 45, 57, 65, 80, 88, 95
Heart Lake, 47
heartleaf arnica, 61
Hebgen Lake earthquake, 103
Hell’s Half Acre Lava Field, 102
Hellroaring Creek, 52
hesperocyon, 25
hibernation, 64
Hopewell Mounds burial site, 73
horses, 25–26, 28–31, 69–70, 74
horsetails, 15
hot springs, 48, 74–75, 104
hotspot, 43–46, 50, 94, 99, 102
Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, 46
Hyaenodons, 25
hydrothermal explosions, 103–105
hydrothermal fluids, 101

ice ages, see glaciations
ice dams, 55–56
ichthyosaurs, 14, 18
Indian Pond, 54, 105
Indian Removal Act of 1830, 77
Indian Territory, 77
Intermountain Ware, 73
Island Park, Idaho, 45

Jackson, Andrew, 77
Jackson Hole, 46, 52, 56
Jackson Lake, 52, 56
Jackson, Wyoming, 53
Jamestown, Virginia, 77
Jasper National Park, 91
juniper, 109
Jurassic period, 15, 17–18, 33

kestrels, 67
kettle lakes, 56
kettle ponds, 56

lahars, 36–38
Lake Butte, 39
lake trout, 111
Lakota Sioux, 80
Lamar Buffalo Ranch, 88
Lamar Canyon, 55
Lamar Lake, 55
Lamar River, 51, 55–56, 78, 87
Lamar Valley, 24, 35, 37, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63, 65, 76, 88, 91
Lava Creek Tuff, 46–47
lava flows, 36, 46–48, 54, 101–102
Leopold, Aldo, 90
Lewis Lake, 46–47
lichen, 72
limber pine, 65
limestone, 9
lions, American, 26, 30, 57, 69
Little Ice Age, 57
Livingston, Montana, 34
lizards, 14
llamas, 28
lodgepole pine, 57, 60–61, 63, 68, 78, 95, 109
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, 47
Lower Geyser Basin, 80
lupine, 61
lycopods, 10
lynx, Canada, 26, 110

Madison Junction, 45
Madison Range, 103
Madison River, 46–47, 52, 56, 71, 103
magma, 42–43, 47, 100–101, 103–104
magma chamber, 43–44, 47, 99–101, 104
magpies, 17, 93
mammals, 14–15, 18, 22–23
Mammoth Hot Springs, 18, 35, 46, 54, 70,
76, 81, 88
mammoths, 28–32, 57, 69–70
marsupials, 23–24
Mary Bay, 54, 105
Mary Mountain, 54
mastodons, 26, 28–32, 57
Meldrum Mountain, 39
meltwater, 52–55
Merychippus, 25
meteorites, 4, 7
Midway Geyser Basin, 105
Mississippi River, 42
Missouri River, 111
Mollie’s Pack, 94
mollusks, 9, 14
Molly Islands, 110
moose, 29, 32, 66–67, 93, 110
Mount Everts, 18
Mount Hornaday, 24
Mount Pinatubo, 98
Mount Sheridan, 45, 50
Mount St. Helens, 38, 45, 101
Mount Washburn, 37, 39, 45, 50, 95
mountain bluebirds, 67
mountain deer, 29, 31
mountain goats, 26
mountain pine beetles, 65
mudflows, see lahars
mule deer, 29, 67, 83, 85, 112
musk ox, 29, 31

National Park Service, 81
Native Americans, 54, 69–82, 94
Nez Perce Tribe, 75, 78–81
Nez Perce Creek Flow, 54
Nimiipuu, 75
Nimravidae, 26
non-native plants, 110
Norris Geyser Basin, 105
Norris Junction, 54, 70
Northeast Entrance, 108
Northern Arapaho Tribe, 80
Northern Cheyenne Tribe, 80
Northern Range, 87, 89, 91–93
Northern Yellowstone Outlet Glacier, 51–52
nurse rocks, 63

obsidian, 54, 70–71, 73, 75, 82
Obsidian Cliff, 54, 70–72
Obsidian Creek, 52
Old Faithful Geyser, 46, 104
ospreys, 67, 111
otters, 111
outlet glaciers, 52–53
outlet plains, 53

Pacific Ocean, 50
Paiutes, 81
Panama land bridge, 28
Pangaea, 10–11, 14–15, 17
Paradise Valley, 52, 55–56
peccaries, 26, 28, 31
Pelican Valley, 84, 88, 94
pelicans, American white, 95, 110–111
petrified forests, 45
petrified trees, 37
petrified wood, 37, 71
pikas, 110
Pilot Peak, 53
pine martens, 110
pine nuts, see whitebark pines
pine siskins, 68
Pinedale glaciation, 51, 54, 57
Pitchstone Plateau, 47, 102
placentals, 23–24
plankton, 14
Pleistocene, 30
plesiosaurs, 14–15, 18, 22
poaching, 85
pocket gophers, 26
Pogonodon, 26
ponderosa pine, 109
population growth, 112
porcupines, 28
Porkchop Geyser, 105
porpoises, 24
pronghorn antelope, 25–29, 31–32, 65, 67,
71, 83, 85, 87, 89–90, 94, 110, 112
prototaxites, 9
pterosaurs, 15, 18, 22
Purple Mountain, 45
pyroclastic flows, 41, 46, 96

quaking aspen, see aspen
quartzite, 71

raccoons, 28
ravens, 17, 66–67, 93
rays, 16, 18
Red Lodge, Montana, 34
red squirrels, 63–64
redwoods, 36
resurgent domes
Mallard Lake, 47
Sour Creek, 47
rhinoceroses, 25–28
rhyolite, 35
rhyolitic lava, 43, 46–47, 102
rhyolitic magma, 43
rhyolitic soil, 60
robins, 68
rock bombs, 36, 105
Rock Creek Campground, 103
Rocky Mountains, 19, 103, 109
Rodinia, 6
Rose Creek, 88, 91
Ruminantia, 26
running bears, 30
Russell, Osborne, 76–77

saber-toothed cats, 28
sagebrush, 56, 65, 89, 95, 109
salamanders, 93, 110
sandhill cranes, 110
Sauropelta, 19
sauropods, 15–16
schist, 34
scimitar cats, 30–31, 69
Seminole Tribe, 77
sharks, 16, 18
Sheep Eaters, 75–76
Shields Valley, 31
short-faced bears, giant, 29–31, 57, 69
Shoshone Lake, 47
Shoshone Tribe, 73–76, 81
Shoshone River, 71
Signal Mountain, 46
silica, 35, 37, 43, 55, 70–71
Sitting Bull, 80
Slough Creek, 51, 56
Slough Creek Glacier, 55
smallpox, 77
Smilodon, 30, 31
Snake River, 56, 71, 111
Snake River Plain, 44–45, 50, 76, 102
Snowball Earth, 7
snowpack, 111
snowshoe hares, 110
songbirds, 90, 93, 110
South Arm of Yellowstone Lake, 56
Southeast Arm of Yellowstone Lake, 56
spear throwers, see atlatls
spearheads, 54, 71–72
spears, 70
Specimen Ridge, 38
spring runoff, 111
stag-moose, 29, 31
Stegosaurus, 17
streamflow peak, 108
subalpine fir, 63, 66
Sunlight Group, 35
Sunlight Peak, 39
supervolcano, 41–48, 94
sweetgrass, 72

Tambora, 99
tapirs, 25, 28
Teleoceras, 27
Tenontosaurus, 18, 19
Teton Range, 39, 46, 50, 53, 55, 103
Theia, 3
thermal kames, 54
Thorofare Group, 35
thrushes, 68
Titanosaurus, 18, 19
titanotheres, 24–25
toads, 28, 93, 110
Tower Junction, 51, 55–56, 63, 71, 89
Trail of Tears, 77
travertine, 10
travois, 75
treaties, 78–79, 81
tree swallows, 67
Triassic period, 13–15
Triceratops, 19, 20
trout, 111
trumpeter swans, 110
tuff, 46
Tukudika, 75
turtles, 14, 16, 18, 23
Tyrannosaurus rex, 16, 19

uintatheres, 24–25
ungulates, 29–30, 67, 85
Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River, 47
Upper Geyser Basin, 46
urchins, 14
US Army, 78–79, 81, 84
US Fish and Wildlife Service, 90

velociraptors, 19
vicuñas, 28
volcanic glass, see obsidian
volcanic winter, 99

warblers, 93
Washburn Group, 35, 39
Washburn Range, 35, 52
waterfowl, 93
weasels, 66
West Thumb, 48
West Yellowstone, 53, 56, 76, 80
western larch, 109
whales, 24
White Bird Battlefield, 79
white pine blister rust, 65
white-tailed deer, 29, 85
whitebark pine, 63–65, 109
     nuts, 64, 74–75
wickiups, 78
wildfire, 59–60, 62–68, 102, 108–109, 111
wildlife overpasses and underpasses, 112
willow, 36, 56, 66, 89, 92–93
Wilsall, Montana, 31
Wind River Range, 73–74
wolf kills, 93–94
wolverines, 110
wolves, 25, 30–32, 62, 69, 83–87, 90–95
     Beringian, 30–31
     dire, 30–31
     Ethiopian, 28
woodpeckers, 68

Yankee Jim Canyon, 52, 55
Yellowstone Hotspot, 42–43, 50, 94, 99, 102
Yellowstone Ice Cap, 49–51
Yellowstone Lake, 6, 47–48, 54, 56, 71–74, 80, 95, 110
Yellowstone Plateau, 48–51, 55–57, 60, 62–63
Yellowstone River, 46–47, 51–52, 55, 71, 75, 80, 87, 95, 111
Yellowstone Volcano, 54, 94, 98–99, 101, 105, 107
Yucatán Peninsula, 21–22

zebras, 28
zircon crystals, 34