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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
It was on this date back in 1872 that President Grant signed the bill creating Yellowstone National Park. John Colter, the famous mountain man, was the first Anglo to travel through the area. In 1807, he returned with fantastic stories of steaming geysers and bubbling cauldrons. People accused the mountain man of telling tall tales […]
HIRAM RHOADES REVELS
On this date back in 1870 Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first Black ever to sit in Congress. During the Civil War, Revels, a college-educated minister, helped form Black army regiments for the Union cause, started a school for freed men, and served as […]
