• Visitors stand on the boardwalk of Grand Prismatic, the park's largest hot spring which is ringed with orange, brown and yellow runoff channels.

    Yellowstone

    National Park ID,MT,WY

History

Fort Yellowstone
 

Managing the Matcheless Wonders—A History of Administraton Development in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1965 - By Kiki Leigh Rydell and Mary Shivers Culpin, Yellowstone Center for Resources.

A History of Concession Development in Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1966 - By Mary Shivers Culpin, Yellowstone Center for Resources.

Yellowstone National Park, Its Exploration and Establishment - An online Yellowstone history book by Aubrey L. Haines.

Did You Know?

Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988

The 1988 fires affected 793,880 acres or 36 percent of the park. Five fires burned into the park that year from adjacent public lands. The largest, the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette. It burned more than 410,000 acres.