Departing Stages at the Yellowstone Lake Hotel, Yellowstone Park, 1904-1905

Yellowstone National Park, established 1872, was America's first national park. During the first decade of the 1900s, tourists could take the park's Grand Tour by horse-drawn carriage. This tour involved stopping at a fancy hotel every night. The oldest surviving hotel in the park, Yellowstone Lake Hotel was built in 1891. Architect Robert Reamer added the colonial-style columns in 1903.