Yellowstone: The first national park

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In 1872, Yellowstone became America and the world's first national park. Alongside erupting geysers, bubbling hot springs, canyons, and bison herds, we uncover the pivotal role of art in winning over the public and convincing politicians to set aside this unique landscape, which today spans 2.2 million acres. Shirl Ireland is a landscape and wildlife painter from Gardiner, Montana, and naturalist and guide Ashea Mills, tread the same terrain as painter Thomas Moran and photographer William Henry Jackson.

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0:50.8	You're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:54.7	This is Yellowstone, the first national park.
1:00.2	I'm Cheryl Ireland, I'm a painter, landscape wildlife and plenary.
1:05.1	I live in Gardner, Montana.
1:07.1	It's a very small town at the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
1:13.2	So for me I either need to paint before the sun comes up or after it comes up because
1:18.2	it's really different.
1:19.7	It was art that changed the course of our history on how we viewed our public lands.
1:26.8	People said, wow, this really exists.
1:31.1	It really was the paintings by Thomas Moran and the photographs by William Henry Jackson
1:36.0	from the Hayden expedition of 1871.
1:38.6	It convinced not only the public but the US government as well that this land needed
1:43.1	to be set aside as the world's first national park.
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