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Andrew Geiger

Montana-based photographer Andrew Geiger’s work appears for the first time in Smithsonian.

The otherworldly terrain dazzled early explorers. In 1827, trapper Daniel Potts noted that geysers erupted with a roar like “that of thunder.”

The Lost History of Yellowstone

Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans