Yellowstone, the very first national park. March 1, 2017 marked the 145th anniversary of the creation of this first national park. I mentioned the Lewis and Clark expedition and John Colter in the last post of my Louisiana blog on May 9, 2016. http://uiadinlouisiana.blogspot.fr John Colter, the famous mountain man, was the first known person of European descent to travel through the area that we call Yellowstone today. After journeying with Lewis and Clark to the Pacific, Colter joined a party of fur trappers to explore the wilderness. In 1807, he explored alone (in the winter with temperatures going down to -34°C) parts of the Yellowstone plateau and returned with fantastic stories of steaming geysers and bubbling cauldrons. Some doubters accused the mountain man of telling tall tales and jokingly named the area "Colter's Hell." When a geologist and a photographer went there on a...
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