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This blog will give you a peek into the stacks and storage areas of Yellowstone National Park's library, archives, and museum collections. We'll highlight some of our biggest treasures, show-off quirky staff favorites, let you know about newly acquired collections, and perhaps ask for help with a few mysteries. Along the way, we hope to give Park staff, visitors, and all those who love Yellowstone a place to reminisce and share the unique story of Yellowstone. If you do not see a new post, you may need to refresh your browser.

"An Engineer's Life in the Mountains!": A Summer Spent Surveying in Yellowstone Park

September 09, 2026 Posted by: Miriam Watson

For four weeks in the summer of 1905, 36 students and faculty members from the Civil Engineering Department at The Ohio State University surveyed and mapped 42 miles of roads in Yellowstone.

landsurvey, OhioState University