Yellowstone at 150

Anna Price of the Library of Congress's In Custodia Legis recently posted on the 150th anniversary of the creation of Yellowstone National Park, the US's first. Price goes through the legislative history of the statute creating the park, as well as some of the legal issues that arose, including American Indian treaty rights and potential conflicts with settlers claiming preemption and homesteading rights. The latter issue, as the blog points out, also arose in the context of Yosemite Park in the 1872 US Supreme Court Case of Hutchings v Low (a.k.a. The Yosemite Valley Case).

poster designed by Don C. Powell (LOC)