This is Yellowstone

John Colter has been called the original mountain man. He was a hunter for the Lewis & Clark expedition. Later he crossed Yellowstone in winter and was made to run for his life from the Blackfeet.

The story has been told many times in film and around the campfire. However, you’ve never heard nor seen it told like this before: The drama, the thrill of life and death, the imagination of a generation all wrapped up in the masterful storytelling of Ken Sinay and illustrated by the classic western painters of early nineteenth century life… including Alfred Jacob Miller, Carl Bodmer, George Catlin, Charlie Russell and Albert Bierstadt.

Check out the full playlist on Youtube: The Life & Legend of John Colter

A day on Yellowstone lake managing Lake Trout populations. An interview with Dave Hallac, former Chief Scientist of Yellowstone… The lake trout population in Yellowstone Lake has exploded since the 1990s when lake trout were illegally introduced to the lake. In recent years Yellowstone Park has hired professionals from the Great Lakes to seine net the lake trout and try to save the native Yellowstone Cutthroat population.

Check out the playlist Yellowstone Wildlife on Youtube!

This is a story of Montana archaeology in the last half of the twentieth century. It follows the career of noted Montana archaeologist Les Davis as he criss crosses Montana searching for archaeological evidence of the earliest Montanans. Along the way we learn about the discovery of human antiquity in the world, first in Europe then North America. We explore Paleo Indian lifeways at the end of the Pleistocene glaciation. And we discuss different theories for the extinction of ice age mammals and the Clovis culture.

Check out the full playlist 13,000 Years Ago in Montana on Youtube

Ken Pierce was a modern-day James Hutton when it comes to the geology of Yellowstone. In this video series you will learn about cutting edge Yellowstone geology from one of the premiere Yellowstone geologists of the last century. He was one of a handful of researchers in the mid-twentieth century who mapped the geology of the park and surrounding geo-ecosystem.

Part 1) A Window Into the Earth (Released July, 2025)
An introduction to Ken Pierce, the USGS geologist who mapped the glaciation of Yellowstone in the 1960s, and then became a prolific Yellowstone geologist for over 50 years. Also, a review of the dramatic discoveries leading to the theory of plate tectonics and ultimately to the understanding of the Yellowstone hotspot.

Check out the playlist Ken Pierce: A Yellowstone Mind on Youtube

Part 2) Ice Age Yellowstone (Released July, 2025)
Ken’s first assignment as a new geologist with the USGS was to map the glacial deposits in northern Yellowstone park. This episode describes the history of glaciation of Yellowstone over 150,000 years at the end of the Pleistocene. And, Ken describes the features of the landscape that tell the geologic story of Ice Age Yellowstone.

Check out the playlist Ken Pierce: A Yellowstone Mind on Youtube

Climbing Granite Peak is a geologist’s dream! 12,807 ft Granite Peak is just northeast of Yellowstone Park and is the tallest peak in Montana AND the tallest peak in the Beartooth uplift.

This video documents a successful climb to the summit via the Mystic Lake to Huckleberry Creek route, up Granite Glacier to the east ridge and a route-finding puzzle up the south face to the summit.

In the film I explore the deep and dramatic geology of the Beartooth uplift.

Check out the playlist Yellowstone Geology on Youtube

When a hotel was slated to go up on an old parking lot just off Main Street in Bozeman, Montana, The Extreme History Project and Montana State University teamed up to excavate the plot of land that once housed Bozeman’s Red Light District in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Check out the Yellowstone History playlist on Youtube