Who were A.J.Downing? Arthur Carhart? Truman Everets? What did they do? What did they contribute to this field?

You may have heard of Jane Addams, Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, Theodore Roosevelt and Walt Disney and even know something of their lives. But what do you really know about the principal participants in the Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition into Yellowstone?

This section endeavors to provide some answers.

Truman Everets Lost in Yellowstone

Gilgamesh A Sumerian King, the first written reference to parks

Frederick Law Olmsted