Hi buddy welcome to Dance Nose History. It's the 150th anniversary of the world's first

national park of its kind Yellowstone National Park. It is an astonishing place of course

every year four million people go and visit the park but there are no way probably of

the Iraqi sorry about that pun. History of its founding is of course tied up in the

appropriation of indigenous land by the US government. It is part of that tragic story.

It is part of the story of the US expanding, conquering, taking over and forcing a continental

power that stretched from coast to coast. Its history is also wrapped up in the end of

civil war, reconstruction and industrialization, the railways naturally and white settlers

moving across America. It's a complicated all-American story. You're going to recognize some

of the big players here. It's also a cast and you'll be hearing all about it from the

very brilliant Megan Kate Nelson. She is the author of Saving Yellowstone exploration

and preservation in reconstruction America. If you wish to hear quite a few other podcasts

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