Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to.  It’s about a female medical student whose real interest is botany, and who is accepted to join a field study in Yellowstone National Park, in 1898, by a team who mistakenly think she’s a man.   Once they’ve got used to the idea that she’s a woman, her gender isn’t a big deal, and the story- told, as the title suggests, through letters from various characters to relatives and friends – focuses on the plantlife within the park – which sounds boring, but it actually isn’t – and the issues arising from the increase in development, especially railways, and irresponsible tourism there, and also the relationships between the various members of the team.   It’s quite a short book, but it’s a good read, about something a bit different.