Southern Gallatin County
THIS BASIN WAS SETTLED BY RANCHERS AND HOMESTEADERS.
BANNOCK INDIANS HAD ENCAMPMENTS HERE AS LATE AS 1913. NEAR
HERE IS THE WEST ENTRANCE TO YELLOWSTONE PARK, THE NATIONS'S
FIRST NATIONAL PARK (1872). WEST YELLOWSTONE WAS FOUNDED IN
1908 WITH THE COMING OF THE UNION PACIFIC. OREGON SHORT-LINE,
PASSENGER SERVICE ENDED IN 1961. (RAILROAD ABANDONED IN 1980)
IN 1908 A POST OFFICE AND MILITARY CAMP WERE LOCATED
FOUR MILES INSIDE THE PARK AT RIVERSIDE. FROM 1909 TO 1920.
THE POST OFFICE WAS CALLED "YELLOWSTONE" (WEST YELLOWSTONE).
THE MILITARY MANAGED YELLOWSTONE PARK FROM 'FORT
YELLOWSTONE IN MAMMOTH UNTIL 1916. BEGINNING IN THE 1880'S.
HORSE-DRAWN STAGECOACHES WERE TAKING TOURISTS THROUGH THE
PARK. CARS WERE PERMITTED BY 19I5 AND YELLOW PARK BUSES
IN I9l7. LIONHEAD SKI AREA LOCATED ON TARGHEE PASS INCREASED
TOURISTS TO THIS AREA. PAIUTE INDIAN CHIEF WINNEMMUCA‘S TWO
DAUGHTERS. SARAH AND ELMA ARE BURIED IN THIS AREA.
WINNEMMUCA. NEVADA WAS NAMED FDR THEM
Submitted by Debby Drake.