Name: Yellowstone National Park
County: Park, Teton
Authority Name: Yellowstone National Park
GNIS Entry
Longitude: 444600N
Latitude: 1101403W
Legal Description:
Elevation: 8268/2520
(ft/m)
Feature Type: Park
Origin of Name:
National Park lying mostly in Wyoming, but includes a small part of Montana, and is about 65 miles long and 55 miles wide. ... Named from the river.
Source: Gannett
Other Names: Wonderland, Coulters Hell, Yellowstone Park
Alternative Spellings:
History:
Tourist travel of the park did not start until the late 1870’s after the railroad was established. Away from the railroad was a real adventure attended not only with strenuous hardships, but dangers from man and beast. Except among hunters and trappers the rugged mountain region of Northwest Wyoming had remained almost a terra incognita. The Reynolds Expedition sent out by the United States government attempted to enter the Yellowstone National Park region in the spring of 1860 but was blocked by heavy snow. Four years later Captain W. DeLacy, in command of an unsuccessful prospecting expedition, discovered Lewis and Shoshone Lakes and the Lower Geyser Basin. In 1869 the Folsom–Cook-Peterson Expedition traversed the region. It was, however, through the efforts of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition, which spent several weeks in 1870, exploring the Yellowstone country, that the area was later set aside as a park.
In 1871, the Hayden Survey party entered the region to make official explorations and surveys and continued the work in 1872, completing it in 1878. On March 1, 1872, President Grant signed the act which set aside Yellowstone Park “for benefit and enjoyment of the people,” thereby the first national park as such in the world.
Source: WPA
In the northwest corner of Wyoming, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, is located Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Park Postoffice. Its boundaries overlap a few miles into Montana on the north and Idaho and Montana on the west. The reservation is about 65 miles east and west and 75 miles north and south. ... Yellowstone National Park is reached by stage from Cody, on the Burlington and Missouri Railway, from Opal on the Union Pacific, from Livingston, Montana, on the Northern Pacific. The transportation companies given all have their principal office at Cinnabar, Montana.
Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11
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1:24000 Quadrangle:
Newspapers:
More Information:
Yellowstone National Park Official Web site
http://www.nps.gov/yell/
Pictures:
Source: Wyoming State Archives