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Signed legislation creating the National Park service on august 20 5, 1916. To mark the centennial, American History tv is featuring National Park Service Sites throughout the country. We continue now with another step on the cspan city tour. I think everybody was just amazed by all of the it is not widely publicized. The park service does not advertise. People find out about this because they see articles or a feature like you are preparing. Colorado a typical scene. It is not what most people ...

And because of that, they had saw mills and they would cut their ties, brought them down from the mountains. Pas the Union Pacific coming from the east had to hand cut their ties wherever they could find wood. Not a lot available in many of the areas so they would split them. You can see how they would cut them and bring them out when they could. The Transcontinental Railroad was happening at the end of the victorian age, as you were going into the industrial age. And it was a perfect time for t...

Bison in the monument. The elks club conspired to bring in a couple of elk. John got some money from the chamber of commerce to build some fences to contain these animals. And for many years, we had a bison herd. Now, the elk kind of took one look around and said were out of here. They went on south into the high country. But oddly enough, theyre coming back into the monument now. We see more and more elk sightings. The bison we removed in 1983 because they were confined to a really small area, ...

Surprise to folks to find it here. John otto was kind of a vagabond in the sense that he didnt have any permanent roots. He was attracted to this area around 1907 by the promise of employment on a water line project. And i guess this was just a type of country that was really appealing to him. And so he began to agitate for the creation of a National Park here. The first thing he did was he wrote a lot of letters to people trying to get this established as a National Park and he also constructed...

For his wonderful remarks. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] you are watching American History tv. Like us on facebook. Welcome to Grand Junction, situated on the Colorado River on the high desert of western colorado. This city of 59,000 season average of 200 85 days of sun per year. Making it ideal for outdoor enthusiasts as ...

Advocating preservation and providing resources to teachers and students. , we learned of that took place not far from anderson house. This was part of comte de march. Eaus return we decided that this event would be a perfect opportunity to teach others about the local ties to the revolutionary war and to celebrate the role that the american in revolution. Selig is a historical resultant who has authored a number of books and articles related to french and german participation in the revolutiona...

Enjoy panoramic views of the Grand Mesa and Book Cliffs, and explore nearby hiking trails in the Colorado National Monument.

Enjoy panoramic views of the Grand Mesa and Book Cliffs, and explore nearby hiking trails in the Colorado National Monument.

Enjoy panoramic views of the Grand Mesa and Book Cliffs, and explore nearby hiking trails in the Colorado National Monument.

A 1989 clip of Fred Durst rapping and dancing is an early look at his musical aspirations.