Creating a 'pleasuring ground:' Federal act creating Yellowstone Park signed 150 years ago
MONTANA (Billings Gazette) — About seven years after the end of the Civil War, on March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law creating Yellowstone National Park, the first of its kind in the world. The Yellowstone National Park Protection Act “set apart a certain tract of land lying near the headwaters of […]