In Yellowstone National Park’s Nez Perce Picnic Area on Fountain Flat Drive near Fountain Paint Pots and Lower Geyser Basin, you can find the lone grave of the pioneer woman Mattie Culver. We are going to tell you her story and why she is buried there by herself amongst the roaming bison and elk in Yellowstone National Park.

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Sgt Ellery Channing Culver Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3700413/ellery-channing-culver

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• Google Maps to Nez Pence Picnic Area https://www.google.com/maps/@44.5727566,-110.8331335,892a,35y,38.82t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en, Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Fountain Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, ca 1910 photo by Frank Jay Haynes, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FountainHotelYNP.jpg#/media/File:FountainHotelYNP.jpg, Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Fountain Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fountain_Hotel_(16271094840).jpg , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Fort Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, 1911, https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14761153175/ , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Fountain Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, Fountain Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, ca 1910 photo by Frank Jay Haynes, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FountainHotelYNP.jpg , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Marshall Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, Photo of Marshall’s Hotel, 1884, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarshallHotelYNP1885.jpg#mw-jump-to-license , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• George Marshall, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, Photo of Marshall’s Hotel, circa 1880, George W. Marshall (1846-1917), owner Marshall’s Hotel (1880-85), Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GeorgeWMarshallYNP.jpg  , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Firehole Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, Firehole Hotel-1885, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The second of two hotels built by George W. Marshall. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FireholeHotel1885.jpg , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Firehole Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, Campbell, Reau (1909) Campbells New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of the Yellowstone Park, Chicago, IL: H. E. Klamer. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1909MapofLowerGeyserBasinYNP.JPG , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Marshall’s Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, Marshall’s Hotel, 1887, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1909MapofLowerGeyserBasinYNP.JPG , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Bear at Fountain Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, Public Domain, Image from page 29 of “Tour of the continent : Colorado, California & Yellowstone National Park : special train, personally conducted via New York Central & Hudson River R.R. and connecting lines” (1901), https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14738075026/  , Retrieve February 24, 2019
• Ellery Culver, Find A Grave,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3700413/ellery-channing-culver, Retrieved July 26, 2019.
• Theda Culver, Find A Grave,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50443713/theda-e_-culver#add-to-vc , Retrieved July 26, 2019.
• Bison in the snow, [Public Domian], Yellowstone National Park, https://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowstonenps/33335764868, Retrieve August 4, 2019.

References

• Ghost Stories from Yellowstone National Park: https://www.yellowstonenationalparklodges.com/connect/yellowstone-hot-spot/ghost-stories-from-yellowstone-national-park/
• The Ghosts Of Yellowstone National Park: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2009/10/ghosts-yellowstone-national-park4734
• Ghosts of Yellowstone: https://www.yellowstonepark.com/park/ghosts-of-yellowstone
• A Ghost Town Near Yellowstone: https://montanapioneer.com/ghost-town-near-yellowstone/
• Yellowstone Ghost Tour – The Lower Loop: http://www.americanfolklore.net/folklore/2014/04/yellowstone_national_park_self.html
• Spooky Yellowstone: http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2014/04/spooky_yellowstone.html
• Old City Cemetery, Mammoth Hot Springs, WY: http://exploringoffthebeatenpath.com/GhostTowns/BootHillMammoth/index.html
• The Marshall Hotel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall%27s_Hotel
• Fort Yellowstone Army Cemetery location: https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g60999-i481-k4610522-Fort_Yellowstone_Army_Cemetery_location-Yellowstone_National_Park_Wyoming.html
• Park County, Wyoming – FORT YELLOWSTONE ARMY CEMETERY: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wy/park/cemetery/ftyellow.txt
• Fir Ridge Cemetery: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2136222/fir-ridge-cemetery/map
• Kite Hill Cemetery: http://www.yellowstonegate.com/2012/07/yellowstones-kite-hill-cemetery-at-mammoth-home-mysterious-graves/
• Fort Yellowstone cemetery http://www.uscemeteryproj.com/wyoming/park/ftyellowstone/ftyellowstone.htm
• September 2013: Yellowstone, Doing the Right Thing, http://bascombestravelblogue.blogspot.com/2015/07/september-2013-yellowstone-doing-right.html
• THE CEMETERIES OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: http://yellowstoneandmore.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-cemeteries-of-yellowstone-national.html
• Hotels and tourist camps of Yellowstone National Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotels_and_tourist_camps_of_Yellowstone_National_Park
• Fountain Hotel. https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/little-remains-of-grand-hotel-in-yellowstone-park-torn-down/article_feeeff3e-6e11-11df-9da9-001cc4c03286.html
• Lodging No Longer Standing, https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/historyculture/lodgingnolongerstanding.htm