Hiram Martin Chittenden - Yellowstone National Park
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Edited and with an Introduction by Richard A. Bartlett
Norman and London University of Oklahoma Press
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By Richard A. Bartlett
Great Surveys of the American West (Norman, 1962)
The Yellowstone National Park, by Hiram Martin Chittenden (ed.) (Norman, 1964)
A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July, August, and September, 1875, by General W. E. Strong (ed.) (Norman, 1968)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-1334 ISBN: 0-8061-0937-8
New edition copyright 1964 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
Not many of today's visitors to the Park make use of the North Entrance. This route, southward out of Gardiner, Montana, is the most remote from our centers of population, and save for the Mammoth Hot Springs, it is farther than are the other gateways from the Park's main attractions. But before the day of the pickup truck camper and the house trailer, this entrance was the most accessible. Sightseers rode the Northern Pacific to Cinnabar Station or Gardiner, and then transferred to the open-air, bright yellow, horse-drawn coaches of the transportation company which held the franchise. When all the passengers were seated the coachman yelled giddap and the tourist-filled tallyho clattered over the graveled road into the Yellowstone for a five-day tour of the land of wonders.
After 1903, as they crossed the Park boundary, tourists passed through a great stone entrance called the Roosevelt Memorial Arch. This impressive monument is still there today, and those few who still enter from Gardiner may read its inscriptions: For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People: Yellowstone National Park: Created by Act of Congress: March 1, 1872.
March 1, 1872. That is sixty-nine years after the purchase of Louisiana and the beginning of Lewis and Clark's remarkable expedition; it is twenty-six years after the annexation of Oregon, twenty-four years after the end of the Mexican War and the acquisition of California and the Southwest, twenty-three years after the California gold rush, thirteen years after the Pike's Peak rush, seven years after the Civil War, and
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three years after the completion of the transcontinental railroad. It is a little more than three years before the Custer massacre and five years before Chief Joseph and the Nez Percs went on the warpath.
"Created by Act of Congress: March 1, 1872." That places its passage in the days of President Grant. This is in the midst of the Robber Baron era, the era of the "Great Barbecue," when money could buy anything in Washington and the public domain was being ruthlessly despoiled. This was an era of business titans and of political mediocrities. There were land grabs and salary grabs, gold corners and whisky frauds. But as for "the people"who ever considered them? Yet here is the Yellowstone National Park, established ''for the benefit and enjoyment of the people,'' in 1872. How did this come about, and who was responsible for it? In the answers lie many interesting stories.
Even though someone was able to save this land of miracles for the people, how was the Act of 1872 administered? For passage of an act is only a first step, its success depending upon the vigor with which the act is administered. In the milieu of the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, how were private interests prevented from using politics to exploit an area whose wonders aroused the curiosity of millions, among whom were many thousands willing to part with substantial change in order to view the geysers, hot springs, falls, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone in person. How were poachers dealt with? Who gained the concessions? Who planned the road system? Who were the sentries, official and unofficial, who protected the Yellowstone "for the people" until the time when the government would have a clear concept of the national park idea, and could be trusted to administer and preserve the Parkand others which would followwith the tender loving care which such areas deserve?
There were many sentries in those formative years, casting suspicious eyes upon every effort made by selfish men to hack away at the Yellowstone Park bastion. Surely in the van-
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guard of these self-appointed defenders was Captain (eventually Brigadier General) Hiram Martin Chittenden, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Many of his assignments took him west and his love of the land of limitless space soon passed beyond the more popular realm of dream idolatry into the arena of solid historical research. In due time Captain Chittenden, trained as a civil engineer, emerged as a competent historian with a clear, spritely style. For one man to be a good army officer, a top-drawer engineer, and a competent historian concurrently is an unusual phenomenon, and indeed, Hiram Martin Chittenden was a man of unusual and considerable talents.
He was born October 25, 1858, and spent his boyhood close to Yorkshire, New York, in a beautiful region about halfway between Lake Erie and the Finger Lakes. After a so-so public school education he entered West Point, graduating third in a class of thirty-seven in 1884. Assigned to the Corps of Engineers, he worked on various projects, first coming to the Yellowstone in 1891 after a two-year tour on the Missouri River above Sioux City. Although he was not yet fully recovered from a siege of typhoid fever, Chittenden pitched into road planning and building with enthusiasm. During the span of his two tours of duty in the Park (189193, 18991906), he supervised some four hundred miles of road construction. Such projects as the Roosevelt Memorial Arch at Gardiner, the arch bridge over the Yellowstone above the Upper Falls (since replaced but appropriately named the Chittenden Memorial Bridge), and the road up Mount Washburn attest to his engineering skill.
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