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The Cook-Folsom-Peterson Expedition of 1869 was the first organized expedition to explore the region that became Yellowstone National Park. The privately financed expedition was carried out by David E. Folsom, Charles W. Cook and William Peterson of Diamond City, Montana, a gold camp in the Confederate Gulch area of the Big Belt Mountains east ...
The Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition of 1869 was the first organized expedition to explore the region that became Yellowstone National Park. The privately financed expedition was carried out by David E. Folsom , Charles W. Cook and William Peterson of Diamond City, Montana , a gold camp in the Confederate Gulch area of the Big Belt Mountains ...
[2]: 182 The scouts returned on August 12 and brought news of large buffalo herds on Tongue River and Little Bighorn River. A camp crier announced the council’s decision of a camp movement along the range towards the Yellowstone the next day. Panorama of Buffalo, Wyoming at the base of the Bighorn Mountains. Before Larocque, the only white ...
The Yellowstone expedition was led by Colonel (later General) Henry Atkinson, commander of the 6th Infantry, then stationed at Plattsburgh, New York on the U.S.–Canada border. In the fall of 1818, he received orders to rendezvous his troops to the south and encamp with the Rifle Regiment by the Missouri River near St. Louis. The 6th Infantry ...
Philetus Norris Panoramic painting of Yellowstone National Park by Heinrich C. Berann, commissioned by the National Park Service. Exploration Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition – 1869 exploration of Yellowstone river and lake; Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition – 1870 exploration of Yellowstone river, lake and Firehole river basin
The party traveled up the west side of the Yellowstone along the ridges above the river for several days to Tower Creek near Tower Fall August 29, 1870 – After several days of local exploration, the party leaves Tower Creek and ascends what they later name Mount Washburn 44°47′51″N 110°26′00″W / 44.79750°N 110.43333°W ...
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