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Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. National parks play roles in all kinds of American legends and Yellowstone, our first park, is no exception.

It's October.

Time to dust off some of the less than savory tales of haunted happenings. I'm Jason Epperson, and on this episode of America's National Parks, three short pieces

of Yellowstone lore as retold by S. E. Schlosser for her book,

Spooky Yellowstone.

In the Wild West early days of the park, many of the proprietors felt they owned the land.

Some could never let it go.

Here's Avigail Trebue. Yancey was a quirky old-time pioneer, gold prospector and Civil War veteran.

Perhaps the last of that breed, who came to Yellowstone National Park in the

1870s and built a hotel in Yancey's Hole,

current day Pleasant Valley near Roosevelt Lodge.

The hotel provided accommodations and provisions to the stagecoach traveling back and forth between

Mammoth Hot Springs and the mining camps in Cook City.

It boasted five bedrooms and could accommodate 20 guests.

Rooms were $2 per day, $10 per week, and included meals.

There was a saloon handy for anyone wishing a splash of moonshine after dinner.

Folks around Yellowstone called him Uncle John Yancey.

He was popular with just about everybody in the park and its vicinity.

Uncle John Yancey had important friends among the Posh families back east, some of whom dropped by the

hotel from time to time. Yancey knew all the good fishing holes and had plenty of tall

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