From its earliest days, Yellowstone National Park has been a favorite destination for artists and photographers alike, helping bring to life its natural beauty. Famed artist Thomas Moran and photographer... read more →
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Guess who’s celebrating a birthday? Yellowstone National Park turns 148 years old today. Yellowstone was established as the world’s first national park by an act of Congress and signed into... read more →
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The end of the tale is the most familiar: artist Thomas Moran and photographer William Henry Jackson returned from the Hayden Expedition with images that helped convince Congress that Yellowstone... read more →
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It has now been over 100 years since park rangers assumed responsibility for Yellowstone National Park from the U.S. Army. To celebrate the rich history and incredible change in the... read more →
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When Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872, there was no precedent for how to manage and care for it. In fact, the National Park Service itself had not yet... read more →
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by Ruffin Prevost Getting around Yellowstone National Park in the winter has never been easy. Over the past century, visitors and workers have relied on an array of evolving and... read more →
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An extended version of this article originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of Yellowstone Quarterly. The Fires of 1988 that burned 1.4 million acres in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—including 793,880... read more →
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Originally published in the Spring 2018 issue of Yellowstone Quarterly Colleen Curry, museum curator for the Yellowstone Heritage and Research Center (HRC), got her start cataloging Civil war artifacts at... read more →