Yellowstone Park Company Records 1925-1967

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Yellowstone Park Company Records 1925-1967

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The Yellowstone Park Company Records consist of application card/employee record card for work with the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company, covering the period 1925-67. Positions included driver, bus driver, truck driver, crown driver, bunkhouse keeper, garage boy, office worker, office boy, dispatcher, assistant dispatcher, gas and oil man, machinist, mechanic, mechanic helper, painter, painter helper, transportation agent, assistant transportation agent, watchman, grounds keeper, fireman, inspector, washer boy, body shop worker, information girl, stenographer, blacksmith, horseshoer, attendant, stock chaser, storage, laundry, tire man, and tour commentator.

3 linear feet

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Yellowstone Park Transportation Company

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Yellowstone Park Company. Transportation Division

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Due to popular pressure, private automobiles were first allowed into Yellowstone National Park beginning on 1 August 1916. Motorized buses would soon replace stage coaches for public transportation in the park. In autumn 1916, Stephen T. Mather, National Park Service Director, conferred with national park concessionaires. The Park Service awarded the Yellowstone Park Transportation Company (YPTCo) an exclusive right to operate public transportation in the Park, beginning in 1917. It began the se...