Nathaniel P. Langford
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Nathaniel Pitt Langford was an American explorer, businessman, bureaucrat, vigilante, and historian from Saint Paul, Minnesota who played an important role in the early years of the Montana gold field
$1 note issued by The Bank of the State of Minnesota signed by Langford as cashier.
National Park Langford signature from his The Discovery of Yellowstone Park (1870)
1905 portrait of Langford from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone National Park
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Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located mainly in the northwest corner of the state of Wyoming, with small portions extending into Montana and Idaho. The park is know
Nathaniel P. Langford
…from Saint Paul, Minnesota who played an important role in the early years of the Montana gold fields, territorial government and the creation of Yellowstone National Park. Langford was born in Upstate New York and moved to Saint Paul in 1854. In 1858, he became cashier of The Bank of the State of Minnesota, the first…
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Exposed rock at Obsidian Cliff
Colter's Hell near Cody, Wyoming, one of the first geothermal sites to be spotted by mountain men
Hayden Geological Survey at Yellowstone Lake. Illustration by William Henry Jackson, 1871