The Recreational Trip to the Yellowstone Archives

The rec department had scheduled a trip down to the archives. I drove Matilda down with Bobby and met every down there. We could have taken the Rec van and paid money for gas but I had just gotten Matilda so I saw no point in that, plus we wanted to stop by the store afterwards to stock up on some things.

The Yellowstone National Park Archive building is one of ten that belongs to the National Archives in the United States. The building is fairly new, maybe a year or two old and is filled with SOOOO much history of the park.

The first place the tour took us was into their old document room. They had very old books and some letters. The room and all the other rooms have keypads and high tech security to get through them. The whole building is controlled with humidity and temperature to keep everything preserved. Back to the first room...It was a fairly small room with three bookshelves that had their own temperature settings and all that fancy stuff. (Pictures at the bottom).

The next room was very big. They had furniture, skulls, paintings, taxidermy, fossils, rocks/obsidian and all sorts of cool old things from the park.

The final room we visited was filled with the old transportation vehicles. Everything from old horse wagons to the first cars to a firetruck that was decommissioned after the 88 fires.

A book written by John Muir, the 1st Superintendent of Yellowstone given to Capt H.M. Chittenden by John Muir in 1903.

"Remarks-Snowed like hell. Drank 4 quarts of booze can see about 118 poles." Found in a flag pole on top of the Old Faithful in during remodel/renovation.

A look in advertising back in the early 1900's..

An old log book from Soda Butte Ranger Station January 1897.

Petrified Wood and Obsidian.

The Old Faithful Inn Key.

A picture of a picture of Gardiner looking at the arch with the train station on the left.

Just an old sign that I think looks creepy.

An old map of the park.

Andrew the Assistant Rec Coordinator standing next to the first tour bus of the park.

Another bus from the old'n days.

An old fire wagon that was pulled by horses.

The old fire truck that was decommissioned after the 88 fires.

An old Studebaker wagon.