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Yellowstone National Park, reached via Union Pacific – Historic Print

Yellowstone National Park, reached via Union Pacific — historic image
Yellowstone National Park, reached via Union Pacific. Historic image from the Yellowstone collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic image captures Yellowstone National Park, reached via Union Pacific in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Yellowstone National Park, reached via Union Pacific

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Yellowstone's name on this piece is paired with the railroad that brought visitors to it, a reminder of how closely the park's early history was tied to rail travel. The Union Pacific Railroad pushed its lines west in the decades after the Civil War, and its promotional materials helped turn a remote wilderness in the Wyoming and Montana territories into a destination for tourists. Yellowstone had been set aside as the first national park in 1872, and railroad maps like this one showed travelers how to reach its geysers and canyons. Look at how the route and the park's features are drawn together, since such maps were built to sell both the scenery and the journey.

Original scan3,750 × 2,761 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceYellowstone Union Pacific RR

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