Tom Bremer<p>National Park Origins—Part 1: <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Myth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Myth</span></a> and <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> in creating <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Yellowstone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yellowstone</span></a><br>As a child I learned that national parks began around a campfire in Yellowstone. As a historian, I discovered that the campfire myth was concocted years later. This first part of the actual story of national park origins recounts a more complicated tale.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NationalParks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalParks</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/YellowstoneNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YellowstoneNationalPark</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/exploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploration</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tourism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/evangelicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelicalism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/NorthernPacificRailroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernPacificRailroad</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/railroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>railroads</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MontanaTerritory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MontanaTerritory</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GildedAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GildedAge</span></a><br><a href="https://www.sacredwonderland.us/national-park-origins-1/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sacredwonderland.us/national-p</span><span class="invisible">ark-origins-1/</span></a></p>