I have visited Yellowstone Bear World and the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center but it was a nice surprise to find that a century ago Yellowstone National Park was home to a pair of zoos that operated at different time periods.
I just finished reading an inexpensive paperback that is short (150 pages) but it does contain around 11 pages at the start in regards to a couple of puny little zoos that were inside Yellowstone National Park a long time ago. One zoo was around from 1894-1907 on tiny Dot Island before it closed down and the second zoo opened in June of 1924 only to become defunct several years later. There is even a single photo of a Bighorn Sheep enclosure in the early 1900s and a second photo of an American black bear exhibit from the 1920s...both rudimentary enclosures.
The book is called Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone and it was published in 2006
https://www.amazon.ca/Do-Not-Feed-B...0281925&sr=1-1&keywords=do+not+feed+the+bears
I just finished reading an inexpensive paperback that is short (150 pages) but it does contain around 11 pages at the start in regards to a couple of puny little zoos that were inside Yellowstone National Park a long time ago. One zoo was around from 1894-1907 on tiny Dot Island before it closed down and the second zoo opened in June of 1924 only to become defunct several years later. There is even a single photo of a Bighorn Sheep enclosure in the early 1900s and a second photo of an American black bear exhibit from the 1920s...both rudimentary enclosures.
The book is called Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone and it was published in 2006
https://www.amazon.ca/Do-Not-Feed-B...0281925&sr=1-1&keywords=do+not+feed+the+bears