The artist George Catlin first articulated the idea of large western national parks in 1832, the same year Congress set aside the Hot Springs Reservation in central Arkansas, now known as Hot Springs National Park.
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Hayes toured California's Yosemite in an open carriage. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S.Grant had approved the establishment of Yellowstone National Park “as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”
Muir is often called the Father of Our National Park System. In 1892, he helped found, together with Robert Underwood Johnson, the Sierra Club, to protect the newly created Yosemite National Park and to ... do something for wildness and make the mountains glad...
The national parks had been developed by conservationists and by hunters like Roosevelt in an idealistic impulse to preserve nature, but also by businessmen in the desire to promote tourism. Western railroads favored many of the early parks by building grand hotels, where those who traveled by train could stay.
Yellowstone National Park - 1872On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant designated Yellowstone as the first national park in the United States and the world.