Know Your Service, Letter Series
1929. Know Your Service, Letter Series. National Park Service. Richmond, Virginia
On the night of September 19, 1870, around a campfire at the junction of the Firehole and Gibbon rivers in the high country of northwest Wyoming, the members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition talked and day-dreamed of the vast commercial wealth in what they had seen in several days of exploratory travel through the fabulous country of the Yellowstone. As they poked in the embers and saw visions in the flames, the represented in their thinking the attitude of a Nation, weary of internal war and lusty in its eagerness to exploit its resources. As conversation dwindled to silent thought and the men drowsed in the flicker of the fire, one of their number spoke up with an idea which, by all good judgement of the times, should have been received with laughter if not ridicule. This man - Cornelius Hedges - proposed that the members of the expedition waive all person claim to the incredible natural treasures they had seen and seek to have them set apart for the enjoyment of all the people, and guarded for all time against exploitation.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1929-05
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CRLA , GLAC , HIST , MEVE , MORA , SEQU , WICA , YELL , YOSE
- Keywords
- Administration, Administrative, Antiquities Act of 1906, Crater Lake, ehistory, General Grant, Glacier, History, John Muir, Mesa Verde, Mount Rainier, National Park Service, NPS, Origin, platt, sequoia, William Steel, Wind Cave, Yellowstone, Yosemite