Eva K. Moger Diary Entry
August 17, 1896

Eva K. Moger, a recorded her impressions of her 1896 trip to Yellowstone as a "sagebrusher" in a pocket diary. Her family traveled from Bozeman, Montana to the park, where they followed the classic "Grand Loop" of Mammoth Hot Springs, the Fountain area, Norris Geyser Basin, Old Faithful Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Lake, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

On August 17, 1896, she wrote, “...As we were coming out to the main road there were 8 teams of us together[sic], and we met a carriage on the grade. The men had to get out and hang the man’s carriage off the bank, and hold the wheels and horses and let us drive by them, then lift it back on the road again.”

The Mogers had visited the Park eight years earlier (about 1888). Eva Moger mentions changes observed from her previous visit, as well as descriptions of thermal landscape features and an account of their stop at Inspiration Point.

Paper, pencil. W 10.2, H 15.2 cm
Yellowstone National Park, YELL 89928