 The next year, Everts' personal account of the experience, "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril", was published in "Scribner’s Monthly".The story of his survival became national news and contributed a great deal of publicity to the movement to preserve the Yellowstone area as the country's first national park.In spite of their assistance, Everts denied Baronett and Pritchett payment of the reward, claiming he could have made it out of the mountains on his own.