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When tourists came to our nation’s first national park in the 1870s, they faced a wilderness where no support or amenities of any kind existed. After passing through Mammoth Hot Springs, the primary route for entering the park, there were no hotels, no laundry services, no stores, and even no roads for the first few years. In 1873, the park superintendent explained that visitors could only reach the park by train, “a mode of travel attended with many privations and inconveniences” (Langford 18732; Schullery 2001:228).
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Corbin, A., Hunt, W.J., Valvano, C., Harris, M. (2010). The Marshall/Firehole Hotel: Archeology in a Thermal River Environment. In: Corbin, A., Russell, M. (eds) Historical Archeology of Tourism in Yellowstone National Park. When the Land Meets the Sea. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1084-4_3
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