Harry Yount

Harry Yount (* 1837, † 1924), also known as Rocky Mountain Harry, is considered the first ranger of Yellowstone National Park in the USA.

Yount was first used as a cowherd in the Hayden study of 1878 with the Yellowstone area in contact. When he was about to enter the park with a colleague at the time, their camp was burned down by Bannock Indians. In addition, they were doing their animals stolen.

On June 21, 1880 presented him the second superintendent of the park, Philetus Norris on, to stop the poaching and vandalism in the founded 1872 Park stop. Since the establishment of hunting in the park was prohibited. Yount himself a hut built in the Lamar Valley and spent the winter there, alone in the vast wilderness of deep snow and icy cold winds. His only companions were the herds of wild animals that he should protect. In the fall of 1881, he quit his job on the grounds that a single man is not enough to do this work, it needs a powerful police force.

Younts successor should be as little success in combating poaching and vandalism. The situation improved only when the U.S. Army in 1886 took over the management of the park.

After Yount a mountain in the south-east of Yellowstone National Park was named the Yount Peak.