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GardinerOld Faithful

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Narrated by The Chronicler Focus: The Volcano Underneath 91 km · about 104 min · 17 stories

Into the caldera through the Roosevelt Arch: the Army years when cavalry ran Yellowstone, the 1871 Hayden Expedition and Thomas Moran's paintings that sold Congress on a park, the plumbing under Mammoth's terraces, and the supervolcano beneath it all — patient, monitored, misunderstood.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Gardiner, Montana

    Gardiner's Rowdy Railroad Days

  2. 2
    Gardiner, Montana

    The Roosevelt Arch Gateway

  3. 3
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Army's Yellowstone Stewardship

  4. 4
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition

  5. 5
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Hidden Falls of Sheepeater Canyon

  6. 6
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    Ferdinand Hayden's 1871 Expedition

  7. 7
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    Thomas Moran's Yellowstone Vision

  8. 8
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Plumbing of Mammoth Terraces

  9. 9
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The 1872 Yellowstone Act

  10. 10
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Norris Geyser Basin

  11. 11
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    Naming Mount Jackson

  12. 12
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Restless Yellowstone Caldera Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  13. 13
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Restless Yellowstone Caldera Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  14. 14
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Restless Yellowstone Caldera Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  15. 15
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Supervolcano Myth

  16. 16
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

  17. 17
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

    Harnessing Earth's Internal Heat

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.