The Story of Man In Yellowstone

Although there were thirteen national parks in 1912, each received a separate appropriation and had separate management. The business of these playgrounds was scattered among th...

The Nez Percé Indians were first encountered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They were at home in the region of eastern Oregon and western Idaho. The Wallowa Valley,...

The narration of trapper and miner visits and the account of final discovery have already described the difficulties of early travel in Yellowstone. Little segments of animal an...

Nathaniel P. Langford was appointed Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park on May 10, 1872. No salary was allowed, but nothing daunted, on July 4 he arranged to join the Sn...

It is a fairly well-attested fact that America was first discovered by Leif Ericsson about 1000 A.D.[15] However, as Mark Twain put it, "America did not stay discovered," and th...

It has already been disclosed that Yellowstone Park has served the nation as an experimental unit in certain fields of conservation. While this is true, it would not be correct...

Before Yellowstone could become accessible as a national playground a certain evolution of security had to take place. Indian tribes and buffalo herds were hindrances to both co...

During the year 1867 several garbled accounts of monstrous wonders were reported to the _Montana Post_ at Virginia City by returning prospectors. On July 29 the _Post_ stated th...

The streams of the Rocky Mountains were thoroughly exploited by the trappers in the twenties and thirties. Notwithstanding the paucity of evidence concerning Yellowstone visitat...

The character of the barbarian elements that encircled the Yellowstone area has been given. Their position was sufficiently menacing to prevent penetration of the continental cr...

A description of the Indian background is an integral part of all early American history. An appreciation of the "Old West" is impossible without an understanding of the Indian...

It is customary to assign an extraordinary disregard for truth to Jim Bridger. At times he appears as a rantipole hero, and undoubtedly he drew the long bow to unparalleled tens...

The return of Everts operated as a springboard for an attempt to get government action. Graphic accounts of the exploration in general filled the columns of the _Helena Herald_...

Beginning with the origin of Yellowstone as a National Park the idea became current that Indians were afraid of the area. The opinion is still widely held that they considered i...

Yellowstone National Park was one of the last regions in the United States to come into the scope of man's knowledge. This fact is partly responsible for its development as a wi...

A Yellowstone geyser in action _frontispiece_ Sacajawea with Lewis and Clark 33 Manuel Lisa's fort built in 1807 39 Eastern section of Colter's route 46 Map of 1814 depicting Le...