Wednesday in Wyoming - March 23, 2022

 

The first superintendent of Yellowstone had a difficult job. Not only was he not paid, but there were no laws to protect the wildlife and no money to build infrastructure like this boardwalk, which keeps Yellowstone's millions of visitors from destroying the fragile surface.

Would you have wanted to be Nathaniel P. Langford? As much as he loved Yellowstone, he must have found his position frustrating. 

His successor, Philetus W. Norris, did not suffer from the same handicaps and was given enough money to build roads and a park headquarters and to hire a "gamekeeper."