\Grand Teton National Park and travel east accross Wyoming and Nebraska

[Thad Gerheim]

Although I'm not a geologist, I thought John Mcphee's book "Rising from the Plains" was a great introduction to the landscape, geology and history of Wyoming's wild and harsh land. This is from a review "John McPhee joins geologist David Love for a tour of the Wyoming countryside. Well at least, McPhee uses their drive along Interstate 80 as a jumping off point to spin a tale or two. Painting on a broad canvas, he pieces together a detailed picture of Wyoming from its rich geological history, to the hearty characters that settled there."
I also enjoyed McPhee's book "Basin and Range" on the Nevada area.

[xkaes]

Other greats books for Wyoming travelers are "Roadside Geology of Wyoming" and "Roadside History of Wyoming". Each chapter refers to a particular road/highway, and you read forward or backward depending on which direction you are driving. All of the western states have these.

[h2oman]

Good recommendations, Thad! I never met David Love, but I grew up in Casper with a father who was a geologist for Marathon Oil, so I got a lot of geology on our fishing and backpacking outings. My dad did know Love - it's a small state, population-wise!

[Drew Wiley]

My dad knew a lot of geology due to his background supervising dams and canals in the West, and would take me out of school for a couple weeks a year to explore back roads and do rockhounding. My grandfather was quite a rockhound and agate collector too. Then I took a lot of geology, geomorphology, and paleontology courses in college, having grown up surrounded by all kinds of rocks - little ones, big ones, and downright monoliths thousands of feet high. Then my nephew got a degree in Geomorph and set up his own Geophysics company, and became a climber as well - now his own kids are into it. Kinda runs in the family.

[Thad Gerheim]

Good recommendations, Thad! I never met David Love, but I grew up in Casper with a father who was a geologist for Marathon Oil, so I got a lot of geology on our fishing and backpacking outings. My dad did know Love - it's a small state, population-wise!

That would have been a wonderful way to grow up in a state like Wyoming! And well I never met John McPhee but I do know his daughter, 8x10 photographer Laura McPhee. It's still a small world.