Nathaniel Pitt Langford was born in Upstate, New York back in 1832. He moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1854 working as a banker. In 1862, he was a member and officer of the Northern Overland Expedition, his assignment was to establish a wagon road to the Salmon river and to mine regions of the Rocky Mountains.
The expedition ended up in Bannack, Montana where Nathaniel and other established freight companies, a saw mill and other businesses. In 1864, shortly after the Montana Territory was established he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue and National Bank Examiner, positions he held for five years.
In 1870, he was a member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition which explored portions of the region that soon would become the Yellowstone National Park. He returned to Minnesota where he served as the President of and on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Historical Society.
What you may not know about Nathaniel is that he was appointed the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, a position that he held for five years.
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