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WLM | athletics 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 www.wyolifestyle.com 37