OLD FAITHFUL INN HISTORY
Friday, May 2, 1997, is the opening day of Yellowstone National Park’s most famous building, the Old Faithful Inn. Overlooking Old Faithful Geyser and the Upper Geyser Basin, the Inn has been the most...
View ArticleTHE ROOSEVELT ARCH, YELLOWSTONE’S HISTORIC GATEWAY
“It is a pleasure now to say a few words to you at the laying of the corner stone of the beautiful arch which is to mark the entrance to this park. Yellowstone Park is something absolutely unique in...
View ArticleEARLY VISITORS TO THE PARK
As the roads are cleared of their last vestiges of winter snows, and hotels and campgrounds are cleaned and readied for this summer’s visitors, it is interesting to think about how people used to...
View ArticleTHE HISTORY OF BISON IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
The history of bison and their management in Yellowstone National Park could be described as cycles of endless bounty followed by scarcity. Most people know that vast herds of bison, or buffalo as they...
View ArticleLAND OF FIRE AND ICE
When someone mentions the word “volcano,” what do you think of–Mount St. Helens in Washington, Kilauea in Hawaii, Mount Etna in Italy? Or do you think of Yellowstone? Although we have come to expect...
View ArticleGEYSERS, MUDPOTS, FUMAROLES, AND HOT SPRINGS: YELLOWSTONE’S HYDROTHERMAL WONDERS
“. . . and behold! The whole country beyond was smoking with vapor from boiling springs; and burning with gases issuing from small craters, each of which was emitting a sharp, whistling sound.” So...
View ArticleEARLY EXPEDITIONS TO YELLOWSTONE
It is a testimonial to the spectacular nature of the wonders of Yellowstone that three “discovery” expeditions were required before the American public would believe that such a place existed....
View ArticleORIGIN OF THE NAME “YELLOWSTONE”
“Yellowstone” is the oldest and most important of the park’s place names, dating back to the late eighteenth century. The name was first applied to the 671-mile-long river that begins just south of the...
View ArticleYELLOWSTONE IS ESTABLISHED AS THE FIRST NATIONAL PARK
Yellowstone National Park–some say it is America’s greatest contribution to world culture– the best idea we ever had. Yet when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone Park Act on March 1,...
View ArticleYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK BEGINS CELEBRATION OF ITS 125th ANNIVERSARY
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the...
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