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However, the people were heading
to the area in droves by the second
half of the 1800s, and on March
1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant
officially turned Yellowstone into the
nation’s first national park. Since that
time, people have journeyed through
Yellowstone by many modes of
transportation. In 2013, the Greater
Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) added
one more means of travel – bicycle.
“The Greater Yellowstone Coalition
has served as America’s Voice
for a Greater Yellowstone since
1983,” the coalition says. A nonprofit
organization, GYC is dedicated to
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