...GRINNELL. The Act of Congress creating the Park provided that this region should be "set apart for a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people," but this end has not been accomplished except as the result of untiring vigilance and labor...

...staff of four hundred yards, hereby is reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a National public park, or grounds, for health, comfort and pleasure, for the benefit and enjoyment of...

...GRINNELL. The Act of Congress creating the Park provided that this region should be "set apart for a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people," but this end has not been accomplished except as the result of untiring vigilance and labor...

...of what was dear to his heart, the setting apart at the headwaters of the Yellowstone, of a National "public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." NATHANIEL TITT LANGFORD. St. Paul, Minn., August 9, 100.". DIARY. Wednesday, August 17, 1870.—In...

...the Yellowstone river, ... is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasnring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people ; ... SEC. 2. That said public park shall...

...(approved :iay 11, 1910) "It is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or disposal under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States under the name of...

...assembled, That there Is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy or disposal under the laws of the United States and dedicated and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, .under the name of the 'Utah National Park'." COMMITTEE...

...articulated and an administration superimposed over them. Yellowstone was set aside by Congress in 1872 "as a public park or pleasuring ground ... for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." The act stipulated only that all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders...

...established.] — There is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or disposal under the laws of the United States and dedicated and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, under the name of the "Grand Canyon National Park," the...

...provision of a wilderness experience for vacationing Americans. The intent of Congress was to create a "public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." Fortunately, today most Park Service and other resource managers are recognizing their role...