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28<td width=150><font face="Verdana"><font size="3"><font color="#00006b">Welcome
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30to <br>The</font><font color="#ff0000"> <i>Magic</i> </font><font color="#00006b">of</font><font color="#ff0000"> <i>Yellowstone</i><hr width="15%" align="center"></font><font color="#00006b"><i>A little bit of <br>Wonderland
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47<font color="#00006b"><b>Jim Bridger</b>, perhaps the most famous of Mountain Men, could easily have been the introductory picture of the entire history of the American West.&nbsp; He knew nearly every last inch of it.&nbsp; Yellowstone was no exception, and he knew about its wonders decades before it was officially "discovered."&nbsp; Although his stories of Yellowstone were often dismissed during his time, history has redeemed him.
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51<b><font face="Bold Verdana 40pt"><font color="#00006b"><font size=+3>Yellowstone History Guide</b></font>
52<br><i>by Jim Macdonald</i><br>
53(updated December 27, 2006)<p>
54<a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/">The <i>Magic</i> of <i>Yellowstone</i>
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68<font size=+1><b><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/paper.html"><i>The Founding of Yellowstone National Park into Law and into Fact</i></a> (My paper on the founding of Yellowstone)</font></b>
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70<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/paper.html">THE PAPER</a>
71<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone.net/newspaper/news110797.htm">article on my paper in the Yellowstone Net Newspaper</a>
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75<font size=+1><b><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhtwo.html">Historical origins of place names</a> (mostly from Chittenden, with some editing by Jim)</b></font>
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77<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhtwo2.html">History of Yellowstone as a place name</a>
78<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhtwo.html#waterways">waterways</a>
79<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhtwo.html#mountains">mountains</a>
80<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhtwo.html#miscellaneous">miscellaneous features</a>
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85<font size=+1><b><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhfour.html">Legislation Pertaining to Yellowstone National Park</a></b></font>
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87<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhfour.html#The_Act_of">The Act of Dedication, March 1, 1872</a> (the act that made Yellowstone a National Park)
88<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhfour.html#Military_Assistance">Civil
89Sundry Bill for 1883, March 3, 1883</a>
90<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhfour.html#Lacey">The National Park Protective Act, May 7, 1894 (The Lacey Act)</a>
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92in the Yellowstone National Park, August 3, 1894 (the Hayes Act)</a>
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102<font size=+1><b><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yhthree.html">Historical Almanac</a></b></font>
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104<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/doane.html">Lieutenant Doane's Report to the Secretary of War Concerning the Washburn Expedition of 1870</a> (HTML of Doane's report about the first definitive exploration into Yellowstone)
105<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/trumbull.html">Walter Trumbull's Journal of the 1870 Washburn Expedition</a> (you probably will not find this resource anywhere else unless you go to some sort of archive)
106<li><a href="http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=27087365"><i>Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition</i></a> (external link)
107<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/debate.html">Proceedings and Debate in the Senate on the bill establishing Yellowstone National Park</a>
108<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/1872.html">Report on bill to establish Yellowstone National Park from the House Committee on Public Lands to the full House of Representatives, February 27, 1872</a>
109<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/langford.html">Nathaniel Pitt Langford's Report to the Secretary of the Interior for 1872</a> (HTML of the first superintendent's report)
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110rgn=full%20text;idno=adq3957.0001.001;didno=ADQ3957.0001.001;view=image;seq=3;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset;">Captain William Ludlow's Report of 1875 reconnaisance into Yellowstone</a> (external link)
111<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/lacey_debate.html">Proceedings and Debate in Congress on the bill which became known as the National Park Protective Act (the Lacey Act of 1894)</a>
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122<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/lacey.html">Report from the Committee on Public Lands to the full House of Representatives regarding the National Park Protective Act, April 4, 1894</a>
123<li><a href="http://dz-srv1.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cache/toc/D24606.html"><i>The Yellowstone National Park</i> by Hiram Martin Chittenden</a> (external link--Chittenden's 1895 classic history)
124<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yest.html">Estimates of the Number of Buffalo and Elk in Yellowstone from 1877-1918</a>
125<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yvis.html">Number of Vistors to Yellowstone 1872-1971</a>
126<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/facts/yfone.html#historical">Links to Yellowstone Historical Maps</a>
127<li><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(calbk001div12))">Chapter 7 of Edward S. Parkinson's <i>Wonderland:&nbsp; Or Twelve Weeks In and Out of the United States</i>, 1894</a> (external link--chapter on Yellowstone)
128<li><a href="http://www.infinetivity.com/~chareve/yellowst.htm"><i>A Trip Through Yellowstone in 1896 </i>by Emmaline R. Bird</a> (external link)
129<li><a href="http://www.nps.gov/yell/tours/ftyell/fortmap.htm">Online tour of historic Fort Yellowstone</a> (external link from the National Park Service)
130<li><a href="http://www.nps.gov/yell/history/hhighlights/index.htm">Historic Highlights of Specific Park Areas</a> (external link of small tidbits from the National Park Service)
131<li><a href="http://www.nps.gov/yell/history/histdist/fishhatchery/index.html">Lake Fish Hatchery Historic District</a> (external link--an interesting page by the National Park Service)
132<li><a href="http://www.yellowstone-online.com/history/yeleven.html">Historical National Park Press Releases</a> (from the 125th Anniversary Collection)
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