This November, Thomas Turiano will release an updated edition of his book detailing historic explorations of Greater Yellowstone, the geology of the mountains and the routes to 107 peaks.
Dear Action Line: Any idea who is responsible for naming the numbered peaks in the Weminuche Wilderness? – Count Mount Enz
Dear Count: This question turned into a doozy. There were apparently 23 .
The Yellowstone region was known for millennia by Indigenous people, who would frequent the area in search of game and other resources they had been in the area for at least 11,000 years! Obsidian from the region was an especially prized commodity, and artifacts made from obsidian taken from Yellowstone’s numerous lava flows have been found as far east as the Ohio River Valley.
As Western expansion reached its geographic terminus, the U.S. government began tightening rules around land use and designating protected areas such as national parks and wilderness areas, often displacing local Native Americans in favor of a Wester
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