Passage to Wonderland.
Michael A. Amundson,
208 pages, hardcover: $35.
University Press of Colorado, 2012.
In 1903, photographer Joseph Stimson rode in a horse-drawn buggy along a new 50-mile route leading from Cody, Wyo., to the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park. He stopped periodically to take pictures for a display at the 1904 World’s Fair. In 2007, author Michael Amundson, a professor of history at Northern Arizona University, traveled the same route — now a paved highway — and rephotographed this scenic landscape. In Passage to Wonderland, Amundson’s color photos are paired with Stimson’s black-and-white prints, documenting the changes — both drastic and subtle — that a century has brought to the eastern edge of America’s first national park.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Passage to Wonderland.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.
