What Happened to the Conservation Movement?

The laws hadn't really been, you always have settlement first and then the laws follow. So they were actually trespassing on this land, or this was federal land still where anyone could graze on it. And so that's kind of the period, that gray period that they were trying to acquire the rights. The same thing happened with your standing national park. But along with it, then he had the monopoly on the only railroad route to go to Yellowstone.