On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law, officially creating the first national park in the
In 1970, the first ascensionist of the Nose Route of El Capitan in 1958 Warren Harding, together with his partner Dean Caldwell, famously refused a
This article was originally published on April 23, 2019. When Congress established Yellowstone as the first national park in 1872 — sparking a national movement
On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act, establishing the first of the nation’s national parks
This story was updated on Sept. 23, 2019. In the early 1800s, an estimated 50,000 grizzly bears inhabited the land stretching from the Great Plains
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