populace to the rugged majesty of northwestern Wyoming, President Ulysses S. In March 1872, not long after William Henry Jackson’s photographs from the famed Hayden Geological Survey first introduced the U.S. Credit: National Park Service, Hot Springs National Park Collection. Lining Hot Springs Creek are a few small cabins in the center of the image and, at right, natural formations of calcium carbonate called tufa. Published in the second volume of George William Featherstonhaugh's 'Excursion Through the Slave States' in 1844, this lithograph depicts Hot Springs in the mid-1830s.
