From the time of John Colter, who left the Lewis
and Clark expedition when they reached the Pacific, to wander back to what would
become Yellowstone Park, to Jim Bridger and later the Washburn- Langford
expedition of 1870, everyone who told stories of the Yellowstone area was
branded a liar.
The wonders of the park were just too much for
people to believe, so they didn’t. Finally in 1872, only a little more than a
year after Langford was branded the last of the champion Yellowstone liars of
the west, President Grant approved dedication of Yellowstone as a national
park. And guess what? Langford was named the first park Superintendent, guess
Grant believed his tales of the Yellowstone country.
Today only in Iceland and New Zealand can one
see geysers on the tremendous scale of Yellowstone. But you won’t see bears,
bison, elk and moose anywhere else in the world like you can in Yellowstone.
It is a must see, if you have not yet been there
put it on your list. And on your way
stop here in Guernsey, Wyoming to see the Oregon Trail Ruts, Register Cliff and
the magnificent Guernsey State Park.
And as us old historians like to say – the rest is history.
