Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
of Congress. Idaho and Wyoming be-
come U.S. states numbers 43 and 44.
1891
Hotels are completed at Lake, Fountain,
and Canyon by the Yellowstone Park
Association.
The National Forest Reserves Act au-
thorizes the president to set aside forest
lands; thus begins the national forest
system.
1892
Initial Fort Yellowstone construction is
completed. Roads are now complete in
what later becomes the southern loop of
the Grand Loop Road.
First U.S. motorcar is produced by
Charles and Franklin Duryea in Spring-
field, MA.
1894
The Lacey Act protects birds and anim-
als and punishes crimes in the park;
John W. Meldrum is appointed first U.
S. Commissioner of Yellowstone to en-
force the act and stays more than 40
years.
Strikes paralyze western railroads and
other businesses.
1895
First attempt to save the buffalo from
extinction by captive feeding and breed-
ing at Alum Creek in Hayden Valley.
1896
25 motorcars, the first for public sale,
are produced by Duryea Motor Wagon
Co.
1898
F. J. Haynes and an associate form the
Monida & Yellowstone Stage Company
to bring tourists through the West En-
trance.
1899
Haynes begins producing his postcards
of the park.
1900
Yellowstone has a few dozen bison (buf-
falo) left.
Bison are almost extinct in the U.S.
1901
Burlington Route (Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad) reaches Cody, WY.
1902
Henry G. Merry drives his Winton mo-
torcar through the North Entrance, but
cars remain illegal in the park.
1903
Road from Cody to East Entrance and
on to Fishing Bridge is completed.
Ford Motor Co. is incorporated and
sells hundreds of Model As.
