Outside a town and one summer a photog offer came for the summer and he had all this equipment. He had great plates, he had photographer, he had all these cameras and he left them at the end of the summer. And so a 20 year old, ned frost, took all this equipment. And at that point was not just a hunting guide and trip leader to yellowstone. He also became a photographer and jack richard, the son of neds partner, fred, became an esteemed photographer. So photography kind of runs in these two families. And you have these families which are really into this rugged outdoor existence, but also going in a very creative direction. And so, bob, is the son of jack richard, and hes going to be telling us a little bit about the photographer for the work of these two guys and maybe others. For all i know, id also like to mention the help of jack frost here. Mac frost is also a photographer and my coworker. I just yanked the mike off from the cspan. Mike sorry. Anyway, bob, if you dont know, has deep roots in wyoming soil. He commenced his hunting guide career at the age of ten. He was a Us Marine Corps helicopter pilot. He was a swim coach, a rancher. He worked for the american red cross. More pertinent to our events today. He was a horseback yellowstone guide in yellowstone. Yellowstone national park. That was one of his first jobs. But i know you didnt come here to hear me. You came here to hear the man. And thats why im going to give you bob. Richard. Thank you all for coming. Oh, what a treat for me to share with you and trying to put Yellowstone Park 150 years in 45 minutes is really tough. And i looked at lots of ned frost photographs, ifj, haydens photographs. Jack, richard, fred richard photographs some of my own and i have mixed in my love of yellowstone. My i call it my backyard granddad would let me drive the pick up at the age of ten to yellowstone as long as i remember it. All the streams, all the mountains and all the rock formation. And if i missed one, then he lit up a big black cigar and it was a jaguar. And i had to sit between he and my grandmother when we went to yellowstone. So i learned quickly. I didnt know why. These are some of the people and where weve gotten the photographs that are in todays presentation. That encompass. 150 years. This is a photograph that the dad took of me and artist point and i had just gone into the marine corps and had come back on leave and it came to my mind. Ned frost and fred richard and the family of five generations have been in yellowstone for 138 years. Thats quite a bit of time. This is old faithful. Its one of my favorite photographs that ive taken. Mammoth hot springs, the travertine terraces, the springs, and they change every year with all the earthquakes. It changes constantly. It changes the plumbing. And every spring i will go to yellowstone and see whats changed because of earthquakes. Thats taken of the lower falls there, 308 feet high. This is an interesting photograph. My dad took this in 1957. The black and white. And you can see off to the right hand corner the old faithful are not old faithful. The canyon hotel, before it burned down. Then i flew over and about 2006 and flew fairly close to where dad was and photographed the same image. So you see what it was back in the fifties and what it is today. Oh, these are always in the pictures up until the seventies and then those are big in cubs and then somebody is expecting a camera. And of course, lots of things can happen and theyre told theyre dangerous. But people didnt believe it. Now they dont believe i call it the disney syndrome. Let me walk up next to the buffalo and take my picture or next to the bear. Its always been a problem. This is a black bear. How did i get this close . I rolled down my window and took the picture. I did not get out of my car. This is called king of the road. Big grizzly. Look at the claws on his front feet. This is on sylvan pass and my guests that were with me when i was on tours is, oh, let him get on the car. I says, sure about that. Im a pickup came by and the bear jumped to the back of the pickup and the guy starts driving faster and the bear says, i dont like this bailed out, but we got some good pictures. But its one of my favorite photographs. This is bear 109 that was killed in a car accident up by perhaps the end is up as you come in. The front door has been mounted and shes there. She raised a lot of cubs and her cubs are now full grown and living on the north shore. These are two of the books by Aubrey Haynes that i use as Resource Books and im always looking for answers every time i go to yellowstone and i learned more and ive been going there a long time. This is another book and i have these some of these books up here. You can. Youre welcome to look at them. Please leave them because theyre my Resource Books. But it helps me find answers quickly. I dont tell guests when i take them to yellowstone. Some story they said, lets look them up and get the right answer and they appreciate. Weve had native americans living for over 11,000 years in yellowstone and usually they leave in the wintertime. But we did have some that wintered there around the hot springs. This is chief joseph of the nez perce that went through in 1877 with a couple of thousand horses are not and im sorry it was over a thousand horses and 700 people. They lived off the land from the washington all the way through idaho, through here, and then turned north and stopped just shy of the Canadian Border and fresh troops from north dakota came over, had a battle, and chief joseph put down his arms and said, i will fight no more. Jim bridger came through here in the 1820s and reporter and other people reported on yellowstone. Most people didnt believe what they saw or what they told. The next or surveyors that came through. They were surveying for railroads, hotels, miners were basically you looking all over the park, but also cook city. Mark kidd hunters came in and harvested game in the summertime sport hunters came in early day hunting. They didnt have anybody to be game wardens or keepers. Soldiers were finally brought in because of buffalo bill and general sheridan got together and said, we need to stop this activity. And so the soldiers came in and were in yellowstone between 1886 and 1918 when the department of interior took over. Rangers of always been there since 1918. And theyve had naturalists. Theyve had Law Enforcement or Protection Service and all types of rangers. Most of us, when we were rangers in the park, wore all the hats. If we were short people in the gates, we went down and had to take money and charge people. I hated that because i had to balance the books at the end of each day, and if i was short, it came out of my pocket. So i was very careful and sometimes we got people that would say, i gave you a 20 and i knew they gave me a 10 bill, as 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 the liberty cap. But over the left corner is fort yellowstone and thats where the superintend its lived. And the soldiers came in and that was the original fort yellowstone when general sheridan got soldiers to take over and manage yellowstone, we had civilian conservation corps seekers. We had six camps in Yellowstone Park in the thirties. They helped make trails, bridges and their work still exists throughout the park. This is mixing cement. Snow was there and mammoth. But again till world war two, they were entering all part of helping yellowstone build trails and make backcountry accessible. They fought forest fires. That type thing. I came along in the fifties in 1956 and lon garrison was a super ten and he had come from yosemite and said, i want a front country ranger talking with people and helping them with with issues like letting their water out of their trailer, run 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 stationed at lake and i had to bring my horse and another horse because lorne insisted on riding my saddle, my horse, big red. And as we were riding through, the campgrounds were around old faithful to visit with people. Hed look at me when we had a chance, he says. Youve got the best job in the park. And i agreed with him. This is big red between us and i hated to leave the park service, but i was offered a commito f ii turned my commission back to the park service and went off. Spent a lot of years flying. Today, heres three young rangers. Brad, mike and im not remembering the other brother because he was stuck over beckler. They were all rangers that ran different parts of the park and theyre all retired today. But they had the attitude of helping people, and this was taken in the by the fireplace at the lake ranger station. This man is camp charlie. He was raised at mammoth, and the gardener, he is our superintendent of the park. And he has the right stuff. Hes the right leader. He i was up over the 4th of july, talked to the rangers that were Walking Around and helping people as naturalists and talked some of the maintenance people. And they all said, well, he is taking care of us, helping get us better housing. And he is really working hard to get this park back open and i think hes doing a great job. Ive been up there about three times and what i see were going to see more roads open very soon. This is Suzanne Lewis. She was the only woman superintendent for yellowstone and she came from pensacola, florida. And when i met her, she looked at me, says, ive heard all about you, bob. Youre a naval aviator. And i said, yes, maam, shes you just bear with me. She says, ive learned to handle you guys. And we got along fine. But i every superintendent over the years, i sent him a letter the end of the season with the things i see that are good and wrong, that need to be corrected. And believe it or not, several of them invited me to their retirements and they went through their letter on the screen and said, i take tours of every one of these, but if something was wrong, it should be corrected. This is craig thomas. I went to school with him on the way up at the school, became our u. S. Senator. He is now deceased, but he was opening the center at canyon of visitors. This is bob smith. Hes with the university of utah. He went to work in yellowstone the same time i did. He went up 76 different streams out of Yellowstone Lake by himself with a backpack for a week and checking trout and doing four fishery. And then he went on, finished his degrees. He flew in the air force, and i forgave him for that. But anyway, were still friends. He has a home between moose and the airport in jackson and he is the man that has gotten all the seismic sites here and the sites and his team from the university of utah studies all movement in the park, both vertically and shifting faults. That type thing. And i have done park trips with bob and john lansbury, who was a district ranger at lake. And every summer we would do a different park trip in different parts of the park, and wed take the oldest ranger that had retired that could ride a horse and take them along with us and get them to share their stories. When they were a ranger. One of them would go to sleep on his horse and hed start to lean one way and the horse would move over and i finally said, john, we got to stop, got to get this guy awake. Add but we did ten days staying in some of the backcountry cabins. What an experience to be with all these people that love yellowstone like i do. This is so tribute and there was a ranger station there. And today you drive by, you dont see any part of that except for the snow tribute and the spring that runs out the side of it. And youre looking up so tribute creek, this is larry lamb in front with his guests from valley ranch and this was probably in the thirties, early thirties and a horse. Albright, the superintendent, is riding in alabama with his group. This is early day transportation. The park, there is a display on yellowstone 150 years right down the hall and take time to go down and see it. This wagon is one of the original wagons and is displayed there. Here is eight horses teamed up, pulling three wagons in front of the old faithful in this is frost and richard with one of the carriage is that they used to take people to yellowstone for 18 days, selfcontained up to 150 guests at a time. They borrowed 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 chiton and bridge on the the upper falls of the yellowstone and they would camp here, walk the north rim and the south rim and spend three nights there and. This is the photograph that really rang a bell with me. People each had their own stools, but they had breakfast and dinner and they had a lunch to carry every day. And those cooks must have been pretty busy. Once in a while. And granddaddy had cut this photograph for my uncle ned of cook, whose name was jonesy. Photograph jones feeding the bears back in the early 1900. Can you believe that . Thats terrible. Ill tell you more. But i met my wife up there feeding the bears, and i arrested her. Now, given the choice of going to dinner or going to court and shes well, im not stupid. And that was halfway through my career in the park service. And we got married. We had two children in yellowstone before we went to the marine corps, but lots of stories. This is one of the cook wagons on the. 30th of june trying to get over sylvan pass. Theres a wagon. My granddad is bailing off of it. I think uncle ned pitcher. And they had to unpack that whole thing and put it back together and thats going through denry would pass. I mean this is i cant imagine having to drive horses or ride horses for 18 days to do the upper and lower loops. This is the corkscrew and frost and richard taking. Yes. Both by wagon and horseback in 91, 19. They replaced that with a dirt rock and concrete corkscrew that they used till 1927. This is an interesting photograph. Granddad is taking the teen School Teachers from chicago and next to him sits the future mrs. Richard granddad had a broken shoulder and it was he couldnt handle the reins very well. So this lady said, ill handle the ribbons. And she drove a schoolteacher. The 18 days and when they stopped back at lake hotel, granddad asked her to marry him and went back to chicago and brought back his bride to cody and that became my grandmother. How about this . This is coming through silver and pass around the 1st of july 1916. They called it four horses, but the cars still werent getting through this was a 1916. This is the silver lake hotel. Most people dont know it ever existed and they tore it down in 1926. But this was a stopping place for the buses after the wagon days were stopped in 1916. This is Mount Washburn with a couple of the carriages and guests of frost and richard. Buffalo bill haskell and promoting the east gate and getting people to come to cody. And hed gotten a train in across the river and it was very important to him that yellowstone was a destination point and all the different railroads tried to get a destination point around yellowstone and bring people to yellowstone. This is up by gardner and people were loading and supplies were being loaded at gardner to go into the park. Heres a camp at old faithful on the left tent camp and the Center Photograph is one of the first buildings that mammoth. And then on the right is the bear net toll bridge. And i still take people down and show them the bridge abutments that are there. Its just below the yellowstone bridge, across the yellowstone at our this again is showing some of the concord coaches. This is a current coach that has been rebuilt and is used to take people to paradise. Glen and really give todays people an opportunity for a cookout, a little cowboy music and ride coaches. They also have wagons this is one a net for us. He was selling studebaker cars and he also sold automobile bus tracks, protection. And this is here in the museum. Thats the taxi after the horse and wagons were put away that drove between here and the Burlington Coat in across the way to bring people to the irma. And its here in the museum down the hall. This is horace albright. On august 1st, 1915, opening the east gate, the cars and and there they are. Now here theyre trying to get a vehicle through sylvan pass. You can see the rocks that are mixed up with the snow. It wasnt easy even with the cars in the early days. This is the east gate as i knew it. And once in a while i had to go down and and open it up. And too, we got our seasonals in to take the cars and take their money and give them a ticket or a pass. This is that young lady that i arrested earlier and after we were married, my boss picked her up. One day and she was feeding oranges to the black bear. And he says, june, you cant do that. She says, well, when your wife stops it, ill stop it. He came back and chewed on me. It was all my fault and we have bus, transportation, buses that carry up to 55 people. This is that Grand Village and lots and lots of good improvements. The park is cleaner. Ive ever seen it. I had. Anybody that goes there is going to love it and enjoy it. This is a map showing the highlight. So when i was doing tours for over 40 years in yellowstone that i if i had people for one day, i would do a lower loop or an upper loop. If i had them for a week. We spent more time visiting different things. I had people from india and they brought their 25 year old daughter, gianna list of 110 things she wanted to see in yellowstone. And i looked at her list and i didnt even recognize some of the names. I says, oh yeah, we can handle it all. And at the end of the five days, she said, you got all but one. And i said, i think you missed marking that down. Anyway, i was happy to see them leave and they were happy they enjoyed the trip. This is jim mccaleb. He was the Vice President , forbes and terra and ran the hotels. That type thing in the park and not only here but throughout the west. And he has just retired and a couple of years ago, but cared about his employees. He cared about providing Good Services and good food to the people that visited yellowstone. This is fishing bridge fishing bridges. Ive been there since the thirties and its starting to show a lot of where they worked on it, worked on the abutments and they tell me th