When George Catlin traveled up the Missouri River into present-day Montana, he admired the Native American peoples of the Great Plains and observed the bison herds as one of their critical resources. Fearing that the looming decimation of bison would devastate the livelihoods of Native peoples, Catlin proposed the creation of a “nation’s park” in […]
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Points West Online: Tourism in Yellowstone
Originally published in Points West magazine in Spring 1998 By Lawrence Culver Former Intern, McCracken Research Library, 1997 The creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 has been viewed as a turning point in American history, the beginning of a new relationship between Americans and their environment. However, the Park’s creation was also a defining moment […]
Wild Wonderland: Yellowstone Arts and Crafts
“A thousand Yellowstone wonders are calling, ‘Look up and down and round about you…whatever your fate, under whatever ignorance or knowledge you may afterward chance to suffer, you will remember these fine, wild views, and look back with joy to your wanderings in the blessed old Yellowstone Wonderland.” —John Muir[1] Many of the people who participated in […]