Author Archives: georgebryson

If you can manage it, I was told, wait until the early fall to visit Yellowstone — after nearly all of the three million people who annually clog the country’s oldest national park have come and gone and the leaves … Continue reading →

What the barkeep in the “Rib & Chop House” in Cody, Wyoming said after placing (what would later prove to be) the best tasting and most generously sized chicken-fried steak EVER in front of me on the bar … before … Continue reading →

Wednesday and Thursday we got pushed back down the mountains on the Beartooth Highway into Yellowstone — with its 11,000-foot pass — by the first real snowstorm of the season. And got pretty wet in the process. Dried off some … Continue reading →

I could tell you but everyone already knows how hard it is for the unemployed to find a family-supporting job these days in 2011 America — be it high school kid, college grad or laid-off veteran employee. I could say … Continue reading →

There are five possible roads to Yellowstone National Park. They enter from all four points of the compass and they’re all pretty nice. But the hands-down nicest of them all, locals here in Red Lodge, Montana say, is the spectacular … Continue reading →

“The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”  — Gretel Ehrlich, from The Solace … Continue reading →

Special reports | Seattle Times Newspaper. Excellent report on the rise and fall of the two Elwha River dams by the Seattle Times team. After clicking on the link above, scroll sideways to “The Experiment” section and click next on … Continue reading →