Park Stage at Mammoth Hot Springs, 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. Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel was a rather typical hotel of the era, taking its design cues from eastern resorts of the time.