Wyoming, Montana & Idaho
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone was established in 1872, but the national-park idea had to be invented through practice. This regional guide connects more than ten thousand years of Indigenous use, Roosevelt Arch, Army management at Fort Yellowstone, hydrothermal science, Obsidian Cliff trade, the 1988 fires, bison recovery, wolf restoration, Old Faithful and its famous inn to show how a landscape celebrated as wild has been shaped by generations of management decisions.
Stories in Yellowstone National Park
- Roosevelt Arch: The Park Needed a Gateway After It Already Existed
- Fort Yellowstone: The Army Invents the Ranger Job
- Mammoth Hot Springs: A Landscape Built Faster Than a Monument
- Obsidian Cliff: Yellowstone Was a Trade Landscape Thousands of Years Before Tourism
- Norris: The Park Is Sitting on an Active Hydrothermal System
- 1988 Fires: Yellowstone Did Not Burn Down
- Lamar Valley: Bison Survived the Park That Was Supposed to Protect Them
- Wolves: Restoration Becomes an Ecological Experiment in Public
- Old Faithful: Predictability Turns Geology into a Schedule
- Old Faithful Inn: Rustic Architecture Becomes a National Park Style