Proposed line of rail roads and hotels, Yellowstone Park – Antique Wall Art
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Proposed line of rail roads and hotels, Yellowstone Park comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Proposed line of rail roads and hotels, Yellowstone Park
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This map shows proposed railroad routes and hotel sites laid out across Yellowstone, a sketch of how some promoters hoped to bring visitors deep into the park. Yellowstone was set aside as the first national park in 1872, and debate over whether rail and commercial development belonged there ran for decades. Railroads reached the park's northern gateways, but no tracks were laid inside its boundaries, so the lines here remained on paper. The map is worth studying as a record of that tension between access and preservation.
| Original scan | 7,024 × 5,904 px · prints to 23 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | ye000008Proposed line of rail roads and hotels. |
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