In Lost (and Found) in Yellowstone: The Truman C. Everts Story, author and storyteller Ednor Therriault shares the chilling story of Everts’s separation from his party in 1870 and how he survived alone in Yellowstone without his horse or supplies for thirty-seven days.

The Tukudika, or Sheep Eater, Indians were a band of Mountain Shoshone who lived for thousands of years in the area that would become Yellowstone National Park. In his presentation, Nolan Brown shares the stories of his people and describes efforts at Fort Hall to preserve language and culture and encourage new research.

Architect Paul Filicetti explains the architectural impacts of bathrooming in the park in Comfort Stations, Restrooms, and Private Bathrooms in Yellowstone. Focusing on buildings such as Old Faithful Inn and the Lake Yellowstone and Mammoth hotels, he shows how changing modes of transportation impacted guest facilities.

Since Lewis and Clark waxed poetic about the White Cliffs, the Upper Missouri River Breaks have captivated the American public. One central, though relatively unknown, figure in the establishment of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument was Emil DonTigny (1901–1969). In Emil DonTigny: Pioneering Conservationist, Montana History Foundation historian Dr. Ciara Ryan brings to light DonTigny’s role in preserving the monument.

In National Park Service Rustic Architecture, Richard Brown shares the history

of “Parkitecture” as it relates to the prolific work of Bozeman architect Fred F.

Willson. Willson designed 175 projects in and near Yellowstone between 1919

and 1955.

Upper Missouri River Breaks Monument manager Zane Fulbright in The Mighty Mo: America’s Wilderness Waterway, explores the evolution of the Missouri River from threatened resource to its status as a national monument.

In Bozeman Prostitution and the Sociopolitical Landscape of the Early 20th Century, Montana State University graduate student Maryrose Hicko introduces Mattie Hayes Rosenthal, a prostitute in Bozeman circa 1900–1920. The presentation reveals how Rosenthal’s life was shaped by social reform before and after World War I.

University of Montana graduate student James Compton presents Mansfield, Marines, and Mothers: Montanans and the Politics of American Intervention in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1946. At the conclusion of World War II, American citizens reasserted the democratic freedoms they had sacrificed to win the war. The American intervention in North China during the Chinese Civil War presented a ripe opportunity for civic restoration in late 1945. Compton’s presentation examines how ordinary Montanans—deployed Marines, their families, and their congressman—impacted American foreign policy through participatory democracy.

Yellowstone National Park Heritage and Research Center archivist Anne Foster explores what exactly one wears in a national park. Her presentation, Packing for Yellowstone: Dress and Culture in the World’s First National Park, combines historical photographs, audience participation, and reproduction clothing to explore the development of the active leisure style and its influence on gender roles, social status, industrialization, and cultural norms.

Industrial historian and retired Michigan Tech history professor Fred Quivik’s presentation, Mining and Yellowstone National Park: The Jardine Mining District, provides an expansive overview of mining at Jardine and put more recent regulatory controversies, including the hotly contested New World Mining District near Cooke City, in the context of efforts to protect Yellowstone from mining.