Clues For The Classroom
Special virtual resources teachers and students.
Here Comes the Boom!
What’s up with Biscuit Basin? On the morning of July 13th, 2026, before the rest of the park was awake, another hydrothermal…
A Boy Named Pearl
Marbles, Mischief, and a Restless Boy One day during recess, Pearl Gray dared another boy to a game of marbles. Bud Crub…
John Colter: America’s Intrepid Mountain Man
The Dawn of Westward Expansion Most historians agree that westward expansion began in 1783 when the Treaty of Paris gave our fledgling…
How the Rocky Mountains Formed: A Journey Through Changing Scientific Ideas
“Science is finding out where we’re wrong.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer I often hear people ask, “Why are scientists always changing their minds?”…
A Fleeting Season: Indian Summer in History and Art
First Use of “Indian Summer” In 1778 in his collection of essays called Letters from an American Farmer, French immigrant St. John…
Yankee-Mania: The Wild West Invades London
A Transatlantic Debut With much fanfare and “Yankee-mania,” Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show debuted in London, England on May 9, 1887,…