ABSTRACT
Surveyor Ferdinand V. Hayden’s initial expedition to the Yellowstone region in the company of photographer William Henry Jackson and the artist Thomas Moran helped to promote the creation of Yellowstone Park in 1872. Tourists followed the first explorers into the park so quickly that the lines between processes of expeditionary mapping and tourist mapping were unusually blurred. Not only did tourism and scientific exploration coexist in the park for many decades, but as the many representations of Yellowstone generated by the turn of the twentieth century demonstrate, tourists, artists, and scientists came to appreciate Yellowstone’s features largely through the same lens of wonder.
