The Unholy Mess of the Wild West

In 1916 the Organic Act created the National Park Service. They set us at Yellowstone and it's like great okay but they did not have a budget so Congress did not allocate any funds. We had kind of an unholy mess. People were setting fires. We had a lot of poaching, highway robbery. There was some big stagecoach heists that were happening so it was the wild wild west. I mean it was pretty wild and crazy from the original images of Old Faithful Geyser from William Henry Jackson and Thomas Moran. About one-third of it has left. About two-thirds of it got carted off in the pockets of people. Our petrified trees you know