2 1875 newspapers COLORADO YELLOWSTONE PARK Early Exploration HAYDEN EXPEDITION for Sale

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2 1875 newspapers COLORADO YELLOWSTONE PARK Early Exploration HAYDEN EXPEDITION:
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2 1875 newspapers with the HAYDEN EXPEDITION - the early Exploration of COLORADO - YELLOWSTONE PARK -inv #3P-305

SEE PHOTO-----Two (2) COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPERs,theNY Herald dated Aug 6 and 13, 1875.These newspapers contain inside page \"stacked\" headlines and long detailedreports of the HAYDEN EXPEDITION to Colorado and the \"discovery\" of what would later become YELLOWSTONE PARK.

In 1871 and 1872, Hayden led expeditions to the Yellowstone area in Wyoming, bringing back geological data, maps, and collections, as well as the photographs that helped popularize the natural beauty of Yellowstone. However, in 1873, the heavy expenses of shipping supplies to an area with no railroad, in addition to the threat of hostile American Indians, led Hayden to shift his focus to Colorado instead.

Hayden divided the Colorado territory into northern, middle, and southern regions, and assigned an expedition party to survey each area. In addition, there were three other parties whose duties covered the entirety of the Colorado territory. One party triangulated all of Colorado, and another transported supplies to the expedition members. The third party, led by photographer William H. Jackson, included an artist and several naturalists. This group was given the task of photographing, sketching, and gathering observations for the benefit of both scientists and the public.

The expedition focused on geology and topography, but the naturalists also made extensive collections of fossils, animals, and plants. John M. Coulter, who had accompanied Hayden’s expedition to Yellowstone in 1872, continued in his role as an expedition botanist in 1873. He was an assistant in the expedition, gathering plant specimens in the Park Range Mountains and nearby mountain streams. Coulter found several specimens near Clear Creek, a mountain stream tributary to the Arkansas River, including Britton’s skullcap (Scutellaria brittonii), which is a member of the mint family, and the Virginia strawberry Fragaria firma, now known as Fragaria virginiana, which he collected at over 8000 ft in elevation. Specimens found in the Park Range mountains include arctic brome (Bromus kalmii) found at Buffalo Peaks, and large mountain fleabane(Erigeron coulteri), a new species found at 10,000 feet in elevation at Weston’s Pass, to the north of Buffalo Peaks.

Instead of publishing his findings in the Annual Report of the expedition, as he had the year before, Coulter incorporated them into the Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado, a compilation of descriptions of plants found on various exploring expeditions. The Synopsis, which encompassed explorations ranging from Parry’s expedition in 1861 to Hayden’s most recent expedition, was written jointly by Coulter and Thomas C. Porter, a fellow botanist, and published in 1874.

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