M. Mark Miller

M. Mark Miller returned home to Montana in 2003 after a career as a newspaper reporter and journalism professor. These days he stays busy researching Montana history. His current focus is early trips to Yellowstone National Park.

Miller worked for Montana newspapers while in college at the University of Montana. After graduating, he was a reporter and editor for newspapers in Utah and Kentucky.

He has been researching Yellowstone National Park since in 2003 has a collection of more than 250 first-person accounts of park travel before 1915. Globe Pequot published his books, Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales, The Stories of Yellowstone in 2014 and Encounteres in Yellowstone. They will publish his next book, Sidesaddles and Geysers: Women's Stories in Old Yellowstone, in November 2020. He also self-published a middle-grades novel, Macon's Perfect Shot, in 2014.

Miller's articles on Yellowstone Park and Montana history have appeared in Montana Quarterly where his is listed as a contributor, Big Sky Journal and Gallatin History Quarterly (formerly Pioneer Museum Quarterly). He is working on a narrative history of the the Washburn Expedition of 1870, Rediscovering Wonderland: The Expedition That Launched Yellowstone Park.

He lives in Bozeman where he volunteers at the Gallatin History Museum.