Post by Logan on Jun 22, 2016 4:35:41 GMT -6
CODY – Nathaniel Pitt Langford wore a thick, dark beard, had wavy hair, a high forehead and seemed as comfortable in a suit as in less formal wilderness clothes.
The initials of his conveniently bestowed first two names helped earn him the nickname “National Park Langford,” the Cody Enterprise reported.
So did his resume as the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park once it was established by Congress and signed into reality by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
Langford’s was the quirkiest of all Yellowstone administrations. While Langford held the title as boss of the first-in-the-world national park for five years, he set foot within its 2.2 million-acre boundaries just twice during that time span.
Read more: www.wyomingnews.com/news/how-it-all-started-yellowstone-s-early-history/article_6d7ed0e2-36a1-11e6-b7b8-7b9c5900d17b.html
The initials of his conveniently bestowed first two names helped earn him the nickname “National Park Langford,” the Cody Enterprise reported.
So did his resume as the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park once it was established by Congress and signed into reality by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
Langford’s was the quirkiest of all Yellowstone administrations. While Langford held the title as boss of the first-in-the-world national park for five years, he set foot within its 2.2 million-acre boundaries just twice during that time span.
Read more: www.wyomingnews.com/news/how-it-all-started-yellowstone-s-early-history/article_6d7ed0e2-36a1-11e6-b7b8-7b9c5900d17b.html