Lee Whittlesey recently retired as the historian for Yellowstone National Park. Lee has studied and written about Yellowstone for the past forty years and he is an expert on Yellowstone’s vast literature. He is the author of 25 journal articles and author or co-author of eleven books including Death in Yellowstone and Yellowstone Waterfalls. With Dr. Paul Schullery, he has engaged in a 25 year project: The History of Mammals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 1796-1881, resulting in a two volume book to be published in 2019. Since 1996, he has been Adjunct Professor of History at Montana State University and in 2014 was awarded an honorary doctorate in history by MSU. In a two -part interview, Lee provides a historical picture of Yellowstone and tells some stories involving wildlife passed down from the tribes of Indians who inhabited the Park area.