Letters from Yellowstone

I read this epistolary novel years and years ago. When amateur botanist A.E. Bartram is invited to join a study in Yellowstone, the new national park in Wyoming, the study’s leader is shocked and displeased to learn A.E. is not a man but, in fact, a woman. The scientists eventually get over their shock and head to camp to start their research. As their work gets underway, they debate about topics like progress vs. preservation and science vs. religion. An exploration of sexism, scientific discovery, Native American displacement, and environmentalism.