Theodor Barth traveled more than 2,500 miles by train and stagecoach before reaching Yellowstone National Park. In his work “Impressionistic Schilderungen amerikanischer Zustände’ published in 1907, Theodor Barth returned to the numerous treasures he had discovered there.

He was ecstatic about the “wild grandeur of this high valley and its coniferous forests as far as the eye can see, surrounded by snow-capped mountains’