In yet another nifty piece from Montana’s best newspaper-based outdoor writer (Brett French), digging into Yellowstone National Park history, suggests that Mary Trowbridge Townsend, an adventurous “socialite” of the day from New Haven, CT, was one of if not the first woman to record her adventures in the Park in the then popular magazine Outing.
While I generally scorn the modern influencer culture (on the premise that people who should actually influence me should be folks who actually accomplish things in life, work, and play as opposed to staging elaborate forgeries of life conquests), Ms. Townsend actually ventured far West from her pampered Connecticut confines (quite a trip in 1897) to literally get her feet wet and hands dirty enjoying YNP up close.
Read the full story here in the Billings Gazette (image above via the linked article).
