And the mccracken lead Search Library is proud to present today another installment of our local lore events with another installment of the events. Proud you may have seen all the fancier audiovisual equipment in the back of the room and proud to present t cspan filming this today and get home and oturu only watch this on the center of the west Youtube Channel and youll be b able to watch on cspan. Two of the earliest families are frost and Richard Family and the frost family and one summer, a photographer came for the summer and he had all this equipment and great plates and photographer and all these cameras and he left them at the end of the summer but a 20yearold ned frost took all this equipment and at that point was not just a hunting guide and trip leader to yellowstone and he became a photographer and jack richard the son of neds partner fred became an especially teamed photographer and photography runs in these two families and the families and id like to mings the help of mack frost here. Sorry, i yank itor had from the cspan mic and bob has deep roots in wyoming and coming by for the career at the age of champion. He was a u. S. Marine corp. Helicopter pilot and he was a swim coach, a rancher, worked for the american red cross. More pertinent to our events today, he was a horse back yellowstone guide and Yellowstone National park. That was one of his first jobs but you didnt come here to hear me. You came to hear the man and thats why im letting him duothe talking now. Thank you all for coming. What a trait for me to show review and trying to put Yellowstone Park 150 years in 45 minutes is really tough. I have my love of yellowstone. I call it my backyard. Franked wow. Would let me drive the pickup at the age of 10 to yellowstone as long as i i remembered all the streams, mountains and rock formations. Fio missed one, he lit Early Intervention program and i learned quickly. I didnt know why. These are some of the people weve gotten the photograph for the presentation. That encompasses 150 years and the photograph her dad took of me atin this point and i had jut gone in the marine corp. And had come back on leave and had came to my mind that frost and fred richard and the family are in five generations of yellowstone for 138 years. Thats quite a bit of time. This is some of the photograph ive taken. Hot springs going to see whats changed because of earthquakes. Thats taken of the world falls. Theyre 300 feet high and my dad took this in 1957, the black and white, and you can see off to the right hand corner old faithful not old faithful but canyon hotel before is burned down. I flue over in 2006 and flew fairly close to where that was. And photographed this same image so you see what it was back in the 50s and what it is today. Oh, these are always in the pictures up until the 70s and those are baking cubs and then somebodys inspecting a camera and of course lots of thing cspan happen. And people didnt believe it. Noww they dont believe i cal it the disney syndrome and walk back for the bear. Its always been a problem. This is a black bear and they go to the window and did not get out of my car. This is called going for the feet. This wasas on sale if my guess s theyre on the pass through for the bears and thats like this and bailed out but we got some good pictures. But some of our favorite photographs. They consider killed in the accident up by mohaska andcosming in the front door and trying to go down for the cubs and her cubs are down on the line. Two of them die out and used as Resource Books and im always looking for anxiouses every time i go to yellowstone ive been going there a long time. This is another book, and i had these sr. Some of these books up here, you can youre welcome to look at them and please leave them because i guy Resource Books. But it helps me find answers quickly. I dont tell guests when i take them to yellowstone. Some story and look them up and get the right answer. They appreciate it. Weve had native americans go for 11,000 and we didnt have solve some of them in the hot springs on the line and 1877 with a couple of thousand horses are not thousand, im sorry. And 100 over people. Going for the land and going for washington all the way through idaho through here and turned up and just s shy of the Canadian Border and first for north dakota came over and had a bat and will chief joseph put down his arms and said said ill fight no more. He came through here in 1820s and reported in other people reported on yellowstone and most people didnt believe what they saw or told. The next surveillance that came through you were surveying as railroads, hotels, minors were basically a working from cooked city and coming with harvest game in the summertime and sport hunters came in early day hunting. They didnt have anybody to regain wardens or keepers. Soldiers werell finally broughtn the department of interior took over. The all types of rangers with more service for the rangers in the park. They wore all the hats if we were short in the people with the gates and we went down and had to take money and charge people. I did that because i had a balance the books at the end of eeach day and if i was short, t came out of my pocket. So i was very careful and sometimes wes got people that would say i gave you a 20. I knew he gave me a 10 because i put it under a rock in front of me till i made change but you learn those things. This is up at mammoth and thats liberty cap but over the left corner is fort yellowstone and the soldiers came in and that was the regional fort yellowstone when general sherif grossbullock ton united soldiers to take over and manage yellowstone. This is mixing cement. Snow is there and mammoth. But, again, till were, they were entry cal part of helping yellowstone build trails and make back country accessible. They fought Forrest Fires and that type of thing. I came along in the 50s, 1956 and juan garrison was the superintendent and came from yosemite and wanted a front country ranger helping people. Un on the ground, and to get them to put buckets under it and correct issues. He says, i dont want you to write a lot of tickets. Just make him feel at home and correct the problems. In six years of working there, i issued six tickets and they were serious ones, but i enjoyed the job of visiting with people and loved garrison. Did two every other week he would say, bob, im going to beat your old faithful or canyon. I was statio i was stationed and i had to bring my horse and another horse because mom insisted on writing my saddle, my horse, big red. We are writing to the campgrounds, visited with people he would look at me will be had a chance and said weve got the best job in the park. And i agreed with him. This is big red between us. Hated to leave the park service but i was offered a commission to fly with the military i turned my commission back to the park service i went off and spent a lot of years flying. Today, heres three young rangers. Brad, mike and im not remembering the other brother they were all they ran different parts of the park. They are all retired today. But they had the attitude of helping people. This is taken by the fireplace at the lake ranger station. This man is a cam shallowly. He was raised at mammoth. He was our superintendent of the park. He has the right stuff. He is the right leader. I was up over the fourth of july, talk to the rangers that were Walking Around and helping people as naturalists. I talked to some of the maintenance of people they all said wow, he is taking care of us he is really working hard to get this park back open. I think hes doing a great job. Ive been up there about three times. Well see more of this open very soon. She was the only woman superintendent for yellowstone she came from pensacola, florida. When i met her she said i have heard all about you, bob. You are a naval aviator. I said yes, maam. She said a bear with me i have learned to handle you guys. We got along fine. Every superintendent over the years the end of the season that need to be corrected. And believe it or not and they went through the screens i take every one of these. But if something is wrong, it should be corrected. This is craig thomas owned to school with him. He became a u. S. Senator is now deceased. He was opening this is bob smith. He went to work in yellowstone the same time i did. He went up 76 different streams by himim self went on to finish his degrees could he flew in the air force i forgave him for that. He has a home with he is the man whos got gps sites. And his team from the university of blue top studies all over the park. And shifting faults that type of thing. Who is the district ranger andou every summer would be different parts of thed park. Who would take the oldest ranger that had retired that could write a horse. And get them to share their stories when they were a ranger. We go to in the horse would move over. I finally said jon, we have got to stop. We got to get this guy awake. But we did 10 days in the cabins but what an experience to be with all of these people that you love yellowstone like i do. There is a ranger station there. Today you drive by is not see any part of it. In the spring that runs up the side of it. This is in front with his guest from valley ranch. This is probably in the 30s, early 30s. The superintendent is writing out of mammoth. This is transportation in the park. There was a display on yellowstone 150 years. Take time to go down and see it. This wagon is on the original wagons and was displayed there. Here is eight horses teamed up pulling three wagons in front of old faithful in. This is richard with one of the carriages they used to take people to yellowstone for 18 days selfcontained up to what her 50 guests every time. They burn every wagon, every horse and every man that could drive a wagon to help them do these trips, pretty amazing. This is a camp right above the bridge on the upper falls ofe te yellowstone. They would camp here and walk the north rim and the south rim and spend three nights there. This is the photograph that really rang about with me. People had their own stools but they had breakfast and dinner and they had a lunch to carry every day. Those cooks must have been pretty busy. Once in a while when i got this from my uncle ned a cook whose name is jonesy photographed jones feeding the bears back in early 1900s, can you believe that . That is terrible. I will tell you more. I met my wife appeared feeding the bears and arrested her. I gave her the choice of going to dinner or going to court and she said i am not stupid. That wase halfway through my career in the park service. We got married, we had two children in yellowstone before before we went to the marine corps. But lots of stories. This is when the cook wagons. Trying to get over the pass. There is a wagon, my grandfather is there think uncle ned took the picture. They had to unpack that whole thing and put it bk together. Thats going through the pass. I cannot imagine having to drive horses or ride horses for 18up days to the upper and lower loops. This is the corkscrew taking guests by horseback. In 1919 they replace that with a dirt lock and concrete corkscrew they use until 19207. This is an interesting photograph taking 18 schoolteachers from chicago. And next to him since the future mrs. Richard. Granddad had a broken shoulder. He could not handle the rains very well so this lady said i will handle the ribbons and she drove, a schoolteacher, the 18 days. When they stopped back at the hotel, granddad asked her to marry him and went back to chicago and brought back his bride. That became my grandmother. How about this. This is coming through sullivan pass 1916 they cleared for horses but the cars were still getting through. This is the hotel, most people do not know it ever existed. Tort out 19206. After the wagons were stopped in 1960. This is Mount Washburn were a couple of carriages and guests of richard. Buffalo bill at mahaska boarding the eastgate and getting people to come to cody. He got the train and across the river. Very important all the different railroads tried to get a destination point around yellowstone and bring people to yellowstone. This is up by gardners and supplies will be loaded to go into the park. Here is a camp at old faithful on the left. A tent camp. The Center Photograph is where e the first buildings at mammoth. And then on the right is the bridge i still take people there and show them the bridge there. It sits below across from yellowstone at tower. This again is showing some of the coaches. This is a current coach has been rebuilt and was used to take people to paradise and really give to those of people an opportunity for cowboy using and ride coaches. Mr. And studebaker cars and also served bus transportation. This is here in the museum. That is the taxi after the horse and wagons away to pull away that drove betweener here and enter across the across the way. That is here in the museum down at home. This is on august 1 , 50 in the eastgate to cars. Now heree are trying to get a vehicle throughhe pass. You can see the rocks it was not easy even with cars in the early days. This is the eastgate as i knew ndit. Once and i had to go down and open it up until we got our seasonals in to take the cars, take the money and get it give everyone a ticket or a pass. This is a young lady and she was feeding oranges to the black bear. He says she cant do that. She said when your wife stops it, i will stop it. [laughter] i came back on the unit was all my fault. We had a bus transportation busesth carried up to 55 peoplea this is at the grand village. Lots and lots of good improvements. The park is cleaner than i have ever seen it. Anybody is going to love it and enjoy it. This is a map showing the highlights when i was doing tours for over 40 years and yellowstone phi had people for one day if i had them for a week we spent more time visiting different things. I had people from india and they brought their 25yearold daughter she had a list of 100 things you want to see in yellowstone. I looked at her list and did not even recognize some of her names. I said oh yes we can handle it all. At the end of the five days she said you got all of them but one. And i said i think youve missed marking that down. Anyway i was happy to see them in their happy and enjoy the trip. Mrs. Attend he was the Vice President and ran the hotels, that type of thing in the parker. Not only here but throughout the west. He has just retired a couple of years ago. But cared about his employees. Cared about providing Good Services and good food to the people that visited yellowstone. This is fishing bridge. Fishing bridge has been that since the 30s. Starting to show a lot of wear. We worked on it and they tell me weve got nine more years before it is going to collapse it. I keep saying we need to have you get in the system and rebuilt another bridge and save this for people to just walk across. The problem is isa builds up when its coming out to the spring. That builds up and the rangers have to use dynamite to break up the ice. Speaking of ice look on the left side you will see the boat dock. My favorite place in the summertime. Get a rowboat into a junior at that time one of the boys, but life jackets on them the fly fish catch a dozen trout, i would keep one, fillet it we fie it forhe dinner. My mother called it yellowstone bacon. This is the oldest hotel in the park. Great place for dinner. My wife was alive we love to go there the last two or three days season, tour the park come back and see the animals. What a treat. This is the front of the hotel taken from out in the lake. And others. Right in the center is a building that served the boat dock at the earlier picture taking was there until they move moved to bridge bay. Since out on the lake a Yellowstone Lake in the 50s. That was the last time snow planes were on the lake because as i was going across driving one of them at 70 miles an hour, relate skimming along all the sudden i saw bluewater in front of me. I had binoculars hanging on me. Coat, snow pants and i had a throttle its it was a tight prop. I skimmed across this open water and i others who never saw it. I said we are not taking any more snow planes or anything on this lake and they never did after that. It was a great trip and you can see the hotel in the background. These are the ski patrol cabins in the backcountry. Could not get in through the door the snow was up to the eades of the roof. There was always a big scoop shovel i you dug down and it was always unlocked. It wouldnt side hed start a fire and food down under a sub area. He always carried when you were snowshoeing or skiing. In a food enough to get you through the night if you could not get from one patrol cabin to the other. They are still used. This is where i was stationed as a young ranger. I had to do paperwork, i hated it i would much rather be on the horse during the course patrol or road patrol for campground patrol. Were going out on a boat checking the fishermen. The limit was 10 trout in those days. Nobody ever took more than they needed anyway. Relatives that came up to visit with my mother, they were brothers and sisters for the next thing i saw instead too many trout i said that is it, you are out of here. And so they left in the problem was my uncle on his way back covers kits for the back of the pickup of the camper who stopped that they were doing 65 miles an hour. K my boss stopped in my uncle got out of the truck and said did you know my nephew is a superintendent of the park . My boss that i really had trouble keeping a straight face. Anyway, i wrote on the back of his pass if you got to the eastgate before a certain time they would arrest him and taken to manage. Anyway, it was one of my mothers brothers i never enjoyed hearing that story more than when i told it to him after words. This is a brad his last job was manager of the backcountry. They had different districts he was going to retire and in the lake ranger station are about 25 photograph enlargements on you n can go to the ranger station, knock on the door get someone to let you in. You can visit and look at the photographs taken by dad, ned frost, showing the history of the lake area. Over the shoulder and i was a horse ranger in front of the lake hotels. This is the Fish Hatchery thatan existed for a long time there. It is still there but its not being used. This is a storage area for boats and it is still there. There used to be a boat dock here this is when the hot springs in the area this is Old Faithful Hotel in 1895 96. In todays Current Hotel with in 194. A fireplace inside has eight fireplaces, one on each corner and big fireplaces in the ce