summarizes the major expeditions to the Yellowstone region that led to the creation of the park and contributed to the protection of the park and its resources...

exploration Historic events Expeditions and the protection of Yellowstone (1869–1890) Nez Perce in Yellowstone Park History of the National Park Service 1959...

Mount Langford Expeditions and the protection of Yellowstone (1869–1890) Haines, Aubrey L. (2000). "The Washburn Party (1870)". Yellowstone National Park:...

extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President...

coordinates) The Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition of 1869 was the first organized expedition to explore the region that became Yellowstone National Park. The privately...

March 1, 1872 Expeditions and the protection of Yellowstone (1869–1890) Black Hills War, 1876–1877 Battle of the Rosebud, 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn...

Stevenson Cook-Folsom-Peterson Expedition Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition Expeditions and the protection of Yellowstone (1869-1890) United States Geological...

creation of Yellowstone National Park. Langford was born in Upstate New York and moved to Saint Paul in 1854. In 1858, he became cashier of The Bank of the State...

Gallatin Lake which is also in Yellowstone National Park. The Missouri River officially starts at the confluence of the Jefferson and Madison in Missouri Headwaters...

fall 1869 when the Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition made a month-long journey up the Yellowstone River and into the geyser basins. In 1870, the somewhat...

snowpack in the Absaroka Range of Wyoming prevented the expedition from reaching the Yellowstone Plateau, forcing them to divert to the south and cross Union...

war on the Native Americans during the Indian Wars of the Great Plains. He was instrumental in the development and protection of Yellowstone National...

General of Montana in 1869, organized the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition in Helena to explore the regions that would become Yellowstone National...

Expeditions were launched from Helena into the Upper Yellowstone region. The extraordinary discoveries and reports from these expeditions led to the creation...

to the Yellowstone River of Montana, and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Saskatchewan River. Their nation consisted of three main branches, the Piegan...

politician, and the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil...

Pike sighted the peak in Colorado named after him. Major Stephen Harriman Long (1784–1864) led the Yellowstone and Missouri expeditions of 1819–1820, but...

Spain, on charges of subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. Yellowstone National Park, the first national park, is created. The first recognised...

The end of the ranching era and the onset of the natural regulation era set into motion a chain of events that have led to the bison of Yellowstone Park...

large as Yellowstone National Park and incorporates the Wolong National Nature Reserve. Small, isolated populations run the risk of inbreeding and smaller...

of the 7th Cavalry in the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, during which, they fought several engagements with the Lakota Sioux Indians. The first of which...

golden era of worldwide expeditions (1880s–1930s). On a smaller scale, expeditions continue into the present and have resulted in additions to the collections...

the second party of non-Native Americans to see the canyon. U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell led the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition through the canyon...

and bivouac: or, The conquest of the Sioux: a narrative of stirring personal experiences and adventures in the Big Horn and Yellowstone expedition of...

to rejoin his regiment and command a five-company battalion of the 2nd Cavalry during the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition from May 23 to October 28...

Baker, Sitting Bull, and the Northern Pacific Railroad's 1872 Western Yellowstone Surveying Expedition". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Vol...

the Equal Protection Clause. Parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 were later re-adopted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968...

peace - and conflicts with other Indian foes, as for example the Assiniboine. In 1869, the Three Tribes asked the United States for guns as protection against...

Act of 1877 incentivized the development of land with afforestation and irrigation, respectively. Yellowstone National Park was established as the world's...

Lake, crossed the Sierras, found the headwaters of the Yellowstone and discovered the Humboldt River George Washington Whistler, class of 1819, invented...