U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Shaded relief map of Yellowstone National Park. [ This map in a higher resolution ] Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden and the Founding of the Yellowstone National Park One of the prime movers among the many explorers of the west who played key roles in establishing the Yellowstone National Park was Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden of the U. S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, a predecessor of today’s U. S. Geological Survey. His signal a

The photographs in this section of the booklet were selected from those taken by William Henry Jackson during Hayden’s second Yellowstone Expedition in 1872, and reproduced from U. S. Corps of Engineers negatives maintained by the National Archives. Jackson, considered one of the foremost photographers of the early West, was the first man to photograph and publish many of these scenes of the Yellowstone. Jackson’s own captions describe the photographs on the following pages. Photography in the f