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Uncle Tom's Trail was a steep stairway descent from the south rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone to a viewpoint near the base of the Lower Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park. [1] The trail was constructed in 1898 by park concessionaire, "Uncle Tom" H. F. Richardson when the Department of the Interior granted Richardson a ...
In 1890, Bozeman resident H.F. Richardson (known as Uncle Tom) was given a permit to operate a ferry across the Yellowstone River near the site of today's Chittenden Memorial Bridge and take tourists down into the canyon below the lower falls on Uncle Tom's Trail.
Uncle Tom's Trail A steep 500 feet (150 m) descent into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone from the south rim near the Lower Yellowstone Fall. Just east of the Lower Falls south rim parking area 44°42′59″N 110°29′37″W / 44.71639°N 110.49361°W / 44.71639; -110.49361 ( Uncle Tom
Portrait of Hammatt Billings. Charles Howland Hammatt Billings (1818–1874) was an artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts.. Among his works are the original illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin (both the initial printing [1] and an expanded 1853 edition), [2] the National Monument to the Forefathers, the Civil War monument in Concord, Mass., and the 19th-century granite canopy (since ...
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Autobiography of Josiah Henson an inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 2003. Print. ISBN 0-486-42863-X. The Story of Josiah Henson W. B. Hartgrove The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan., 1918), pp. 1–21 Published by: Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc.
Carpenter recalled that after the Hurricane of 1954 blew down trees and obliterated trail markings, Hudson nailed the painted, metal tops of the cans as temporary trail markers.
Samuel Green c. 1860. Samuel Green (c. 1802 – February 28, 1877) was a slave, freedman, and minister of religion.A conductor of the Underground Railroad, he was tried and convicted in 1857 of possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe following the Dover Eight incident.