Yellowstone Park Company Records 1892-1963

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Yellowstone Park Company Records 1892-1963

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv48908

The collection contains records of Yellowstone National Park companies involved in the operation of the Park including lodging, transportation, and recreational activities.

34 reels microfilm

eng,

University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6372868

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Yellowstone Park Company

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The early history of concessions in Yellowstone National Park was extremely complex. The Northern Pacific Railroad, its subsidiary the Northwest Improvement Company, and various private parties owned many of the park concessions. The Yellowstone Park Association was incorporated under Minnesota law prior to 1890. It leased land from the Secretary of the Interior to establish hotels at several locations. In 1892, Harry W. Child, Silas S. Huntley, L.H. Hershfield, Aaron Hershfield, and others esta...

Yellowstone Park Association

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Incorporated in 1885, the company purposed to develop Yellowstone Park. In so doing, it bought out its predecessor, the Yellowstone Park Improvement Company. From the description of Corporate records, 1869-1908. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313867427 ...

Yellowstone Park Camping Company

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Yellowstone Park Hotel Company

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Incorporated in 1909 under the state laws of Delaware, the company purchased all properties of the Yellowstone Park Association. From the description of Minutes, 1909-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313867452 ...

Child, Harry W. (Harry Wilbour), 1857-1931

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Harry Wilbour Child was born in San Francisco in 1857. He attended prep school in Massachusetts to prepare for Harvard, but went to work in a wholesale clothing house in Boston instead. He returned to San Francisco, where he worked as a broker with his father. He did not like the business and left California for Montana. During the early 1880s he managed mines at Gloster and Gregory for A.J. Seligman, and in 1888 moved to Great Falls to manage a silver smelter. After it closed in 18...

Wylie Permanent Camping Co.

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Green Meadows Farm

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Yellowstone Park Transportation Company

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