“We had no definite idea of distance or trail, but we planned to live in the open and take what came.” — Mariam Clayton, 1910

In another century, Mariam and Earl Clayton were married at Lawrence, Kansas, and then embarked on a honeymoon that might not be considered bold by the standards of today: a tour of Yellowstone National Park. Consider, though, that there were no motor roads through the park in those days, and the same circuit past all the familiar landmarks that we take for granted and might drive in two days or less in the present was undertaken by them in a borrowed buckboard wagon with a team of two horses.

Mariam was the journalist of that endeavor, and main photographer, while Earl was driver, navigator and print developer. Their story is told in this small book, transcribed lovingly and faithfully by a grandson from the original manuscript nearly 100 years after the fact.

This is an intimate look at an adventure that would shape the lives of Earl and Mariam for years to come.