How the Mountains Around You Got Their Names Yellowstone
From just inside the North Entrance gate, look toward the west to see Electric Peak (usually snow-capped), about 7 miles (11 km) away near the Montana/ Wyoming state line. …
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Travel to Geneva
HISTORY The History of Geneva can be regarded as a lesson for humanity. To lacustrine Geneva, built on piles, succeeded, that small fortified town, already mentioned by Caesar and …
THE FORESTED COMMUNITY OF THE CENTRAL PLATEAUS
You’re likely to spend the majority of your Yellowstone visit in the central plateaus region, where most of the roads are, along with the geyser basins, the Yellowstone Canyon, …
Map of Goteborg Sweden
GOTEBORG Goteborg, Sweden’s second largest dty and largest port is situated on the Swedish west coast of the archipelago, a city from the 17th century surrounded by channels -a …
From Livingston to the North Entrance
William Clark, of the 1803-6 Lewis and Clark expedition, passed the Great Bend of the Yellowstone at present-day Livingston on his return from the Pacific coast, thereby totally missing …
TRAVEL TO ISTANBUL
The only city in the world to be located on two continents, Europe and Asia, Istanbul spreads out on two sides of the Bosphorus, a narrow channel in which …
Yellowstone Highway Robbery
Split Rock, a large boulder in the middle of the Gardner River, has a story. On the night of July 4, 1887, two masked highwaymen hid behind the rock, …
Map of Stockholm
STOCKHOLM Stockholm is officially 730 years old, but more than 4000 years ago, there were already people living in the Stockholm area and there are many historical sites in …
Historic Fort Yellowstone
To get a feeling for army life here when the U.S. Cavalry was stationed at Fort Yellowstone a century ago, take a ranger-guided tour or a short walk around …
Travel to Basel Switzerland
HISTORY In 374 Basilea, a Roman military station, was first mentioned in the records as a bishop’s seat. In 1225 the first bridge was built across the Rhine thus …