Proud to present today another installment of our events with bob richard. [applause] [cheering and applauding] you are very proud today how to present cspan cannot only force this on the subject of the youtube channel, you can watch onon cspan. This is an interesting genesis, two of the earliest families, a ranch outside of town and one summer a photographer came for the summer and have this equipment in these cameras and at the end of the summer of 20yearold took equipment into is not just a hunting guide, he became a photographer and fred became esteemed photographer so production runs with these two families and you have families in this afterxi existence but ao a Creative Direction so the son of jack richard and he will tell us about the photography worker bees to cars and maybe others. Id like to mentionre matt frost here, also a photographer. Anyway, if you dont know, he has deep roots and the u. S. Marine Corps Helicopter pilot and swim coach and ranger and worked for the American Red Cross and a respect yellowstone guy, one of his first jobs but i know he didnt come here to hear me but to hear the man and im going to give you richard. [applause] what a treat to share with you Yellowstone Park in 45 minutes, its really tough enough without a lot of photographs, jack richard, fred richard photographs and i call it my backyard let me drive to pick about the age of ten and all the rock formations. And i had to sit in between so i learned quickly, i didnt know why these are some of the people and we have photographs in todays presentation but 150 years this is a photograph that took of me and i had just gone into the marine corps and he came to my mind the family, five generations had been in yellowstone 138 years, thats quite a bit of time. The brings change every year and changes the plumbing. That has taken the falls and they are 308 feet high. My dad took this and 1857, black andd white and you can see off o the right hand corner and in 2006 fairly close to where that was and it was the same image. Back in the 50s what it is today. Oh, these are always up until the 70s and somebody s inspecting the camera lots of things can happen and told they are dangerous but people didnt believe it. Let me take my picture and that has always been theem problem. This is a black bear. I rolled down my window and took a picture. I did not get out of my car. You look at the clock on his front feet and what are they . As a chore, the pickup came by and the bear jumped in the back of the pickup and the guy starts driving past and we got some good picture but oneis of my favorite photographs. In as you come in the front door, her cubs are fullgrown. These are two of the books i use as Resource Books and im always looking for answers. Thisha is another book and these are my Resource Books but it helpsin me and answers quickly. I said look look this up and find the answer . And we have had native americans living 11 pounds new years and milestone and we did have offspring that went through in 1877 and not on thousand, over 1000 horses and they lived off the land washington through idaho and some just shy of the border from north dakota came over and he put down his arms and said i will fight the war. He came through in the 1820s and what they saw. The railroads, hotels and basically looking all over and they came in in the summertime and they didnt have anybody and soldiers were finally brought in and they got together and said we need to stop this activity so they came in and were in yellowstone when the department of interior took over. Rangers have always been since 1918 and have had naturalists and Protection Service and all types of rangers. If we were short people, we would go down and charge people. I hated that because i had to balance the books at the end of each day and if i was short, it came out of my pockett so i was careful and sometimes people would give you a 20 and he put it under a rock. This is liberty but this is court yellowstone and the soldiers came in and that was the original stone and they took over. We have camps in yellowstone and he made trails and bridges throughout the park. Again, world war ii in the park of the yellowstone trails and make the country exist in the superintendent in 1870 and they were helping them issues and getting the buckets and he says i dont want you to write a lot of tickets. Just make you feel at home and collect the problems. I issued six tickets. I would visit with people and gerson did, too. Every he would and they would have another horse and as we were riding through the campgrounds, though say about the best job in the park and i agreed. This is between us and was offered commission to fight in the military and turned back and spent a lot of years flying. Today there are three rangers, brad, mike and they all ran different parts of the park and they all retired but they have the attitude of helping people and this was taken to the ranger station. This is the superintendent of the park and he has the right stuff. Over the fourth of july talkedd to those Walking Around and helping people in some of them said he was taking care of us, helping and he is really working hard to get the park back open and i think hes doing a great jobt. We are going to see this very soon. This was the only superintendent and she came from pensacola, florida and was an aviator. Every superintendent over the years i was sent a letter at the end of the season and it needs to be corrected. They would go through and say i take care of every oneg of the. If something is wrong, it is to be corrected. This was a u. S. Senator and this is bob smith at the university of utah and worked int yellowstone same time i did. Seventysix different streams by himself with a backpack for a he threw in course and i for gave them for that and they had sites within that and his team for the university of utah stays shifting fault and we have the district ranger and every summer we would do a different trip and you take the oldest the ride a horse and it was the ranger. The course would move over and got to get this guy will got ten days and this was yellowstone and it was like i do. This was the ranger station there and it went to the side of the. This is in front with their ranch and they are in the 30s, early 30s. This was for the day transportation in the park and the display on the stone down the hall and take time to go down and see it and there was a display there. The forces teamedll up and thiss richard with one of the carriages to take people to yellowstone 18 days, selfcontained of two 150 guests at a time and every horse and they help them through these trips, pretty amazing. This was only forms of yellowstone and they had three nights there. This was before the growth in the world but the focus into the game lunch everyday once in a while they would and is name was jones in the early 1900s. Can you believe that . Is terrible. Bl i will tell you more but i met my wife at their and gave a choice in going to court and is a speaker and i was halfway through my career and we got married and had two children yellowstone a lot of stories. This is one of the wagons. I cant imagine having to ride horses for 18 days doing loops. This is a corkscrew and was that was concrete in 1927. This was a photograph taking 18 schoolteachers from chicago and the words very well she is schoolteachers 18 days and stopped back at the hotel and brought back his bride. This was around the first of july, 1916 the cars still were getting through. This was916 most people dont know and they tore it down and 1926. This was 1960. This was promoting and giving people across the river it was important that was yellowstone. Supplies were going to the park. This was on the left and on the right, it was discouraging the children bridge and it was across the yellowstone. This was some of these approaches, this was current coach and we give people an opportunity and they were selling cars and bus transportation. This is the taxi after across the way and it is here. This was august 1 opening to cars. D here they are trying to get thugh and you can see they are mixed up and they go down and open it up until he got in and they are past. My boss pick her up one day and she was feeding oranges to the black bear and said you cant do that and she says your wife stops it, stop. We had best transportation up to 55 people. The park was cleaner, and i had ever seen it and anybody with love and enjoy it. And there were two i words for everyo we spent more time on Different Things and she had a list of 110 you didnt see in yellowstone. I didnt even recognize some of the names. Ne she said, will but one and i said i think you miss working that not but anyway, i was happy to see in the wahhabi. This was the Vice President who ran hotels not only hear but throughout the west and he hired a couple of years ago that the cared about services. This is fishing bridge and its been there and they are sharing a lot and they tell me we know more before it collapses and the keepha saying we need to get itn the system and lets rebuild. It is coming up in the spring and they break up the ice. Speaking of ice, on the left side you will see a place in the summertime the boys put lifejackets on and we would have this for dinner. My mom called it yellowstone bacon. It is part of the season and have a nice dinner and go back, what a treat. And it belongs to people and then in the center is a building that served and this is an earlier picture taken and was there until moving to bridge bay. This was in the 50s and the last time many were there because i was willing to cross. And does on the back with a prompt and skimmed across this and went around and never saw it. In the backcountry, they couldnt get in through the door and there is always a shovel and you dug down to identify and let yourself in. And it was enough to get you through one patrol kevin to the other. They had to do paperwork and i hated it. During horse patrol, road patrol one countdown patrol for going on a boat and the level was ten and they took what they needed anyway. His thats it, youre out of here. The kids back with the doing 60 miles an hour. And you know it is a super park and really had trouble keeping a straight face. He went to the back of the past present time. And it is the last job in that country and had different districts and the district ranger. And they were the range station and you can visit look at the photograph entering the history and it was when i was a stranger. This is what a long time and still there but not being used. This is the storage area for boats and its still there. And this is in the background. This is a hotel in 1895 to 96 in todays Current Hotel and has eight fireplaces. And only three of these fireplaces work today. This is attached to a a fireplae and i found where its written, 1904. People will count around the collection and you can pull it up on an app and i was there and it was 62 months. Now an hour and a half. This existed for years and years and its taken over by another company but we are the only ones who serve as and they opened the doors and somebody started a fire and when the fireplace worked out so will the hotels did the this is an earlier hotel and this is the visitor center. These t are hot spring they decided that wasnt right. This was a rich and my son scott hiked up there in the appalachian mountain. As a Different Group every week. You can see this in many places. This is the cold bridge. This is amazing. This is what an summer and will i show this and said whos there . Why is this only one . And she looked of her staff and said well, tell me so i explained that this was just north they came down every day on horseback and didnt like vethat and i dont know who movd up with the mayor is no longer there. This is where the tectonic plate which is a north state and you can stop there the north and to the south and it broke loose. Nobody tells you that but its there. Kurt fountain has younger this is the of default and it is 1871 and i learned about my grandfather, some of the strangers wanted to know where it was never got around to it and it still growing. This is 380 looses richmond never got caught lower but this is where the cross. They also spent time capturing and ship them to all and a dozen states around the country and this is the trail and floated up into the truck and this is one of the earlier days still in use today. This is Cedar Mountain behind your and this was for two and half hours and he says you showed me in two and a half hours it took me a lifetime to do on horseback. This is a special photograph and from the time i was a kid looked atou the clouds and every time i came back, i knew i was home. This was the landmark and it was the early day. This was the Regional Airport and they rebuilt it. There is a new book out on the Fire Department and the first grounds were out front here were the has full Football Team is for the schoolhouse and they took us out and insert school. They didnt know where it came until i used to polo robe on that possible. This was on hiking trails as well as yellowstone. This was back in the 50s and this was northgate, eastgate and this is the ice going out and driving along and i was helping people learn about yellowstone and snapped out through the window and he was involved in helping general there. Now you have tobo talk about th. Okay, this is fourth of july this year and that is the fireworks display that was going on across the river and this was a picture is planning to take for many years to put this behind the stage of the scout. Remember who you are and what you stand for. And olmsted stood well with all of us. This is the company that i had from over 40 years. Its that big in existence for 50 years, and if you go back to 1902, they were doing tours and what you did in the parking 1905 or six they were doing tours and had to change over to trucks and cars to take people along the horses. My dad and his brother did horseback tours. I did if you before i got to the age that i could become a ranger. This is my first brochure promoting the business, and i had a great business. Met people from all over the world, and what a treat was because i learned as much from my guests as they learn from the. This is probably the best picture that i took, and its the bears coming into the park, and i sold over 750 numbered photographs, and every retiree that works in the park gets an enlargement that they buy and share with their employees. And not only, this i ned frost photograph. This one is trying to figure out how to run his camera. I found this and i emailed teresa how and said, could i use this . Can you read it . You cant read it . You can . Good beer anyway, it says ranger bob, and i thought yeah, thats mine. And she saidd please go ahead d use it. But its got more published the book. This is a type that i used to wear desperate tie pin. This was my ranger badge when i was a ranger. They put this out to celebrate 100 years as a ranger badge. And then i found this beer this is bills, taking tours through yellowstone, or over yellowston yellowstone. This is out and for sale in the park right now appear this is the resource, and issues handbook that is published now. When it was first made up it was only for the superintendent of the park. Now you can buy it. This is in this years peer its a collectors item. Did at the visitors center. Three natural disasters that ive been involved in, the earthquake, the fires of 88, and the floods here and we all survived it there its been tough on the communities end up on the people that actually the earthquake, everybody stayed out of the park and we had great fishing. It was wonderful. I just come was always proud to put our flag up outside the ranger station. And this is a thank you to some of the people that help me put this together. And i just barely made the time. Youve been a wonderful audience. Thank you. And i hope to see you next time. [applause] weekends on cspan2 are an intellectual feast. Every saturday American History tv documents in american stories, and on sundays booktv brgs you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan2 come from these Television Companies and more including mediacom. At mediacom we believe that whether you live here, right here come our way out in middle of anywhere you should have access to fast reliable in that. Thats why we are leading the way to take you to0g. Mediacom along with these tevision companies supports cspan2 as a public service. 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