Wild & Wooly: Yellowstone's Park Rangers
When the Army Ruled Yellowstone
Guest:\xa0Thomas Rust, Professor, History, Montana State University, Billings, and author, \u201cWatching Over Yellowstone: The US Army's Experience in America's First National Park, 1886\u20131918\u201d
Creating Yellowstone National Park was quite a feat to begin with, but managing and patroling it was quite another. For 32 years, the US Army protected\xa0 the park and provided a pattern for the Ranger system. They had to deal with poachers practicing guerilla warfare, hawkers setting up shop, and even boredom and desertion.