National Parks Posts

George Washington Carjack, Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim Mason discovered gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory in 1896.  Once word of the strike filtered back to civilization, gold fever infected hordes of people looking to get rich quick, and the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897 brought thousands of potential prospectors to the ramshackle Alaska towns of Dyea and ...

Since the first postage stamps depicting the national parks were released in 1934, the Grand Canyon has been represented on more stamps than any other park. In May 1999 Stamp Services discovered a typographic error that occurred during the production of the 60-cent international commemorative Grand Canyon stamp. This resulted in the destruction of 100 million stamps, costing Postal Service approx...

While tracking stray cattle through a snowstorm in a rugged and remote country in 1888, two ranchers stood on the edge of a deep canyon and saw what looked to be man-made walls and towers built on a ledge on the canyon’s opposite wall.  The ranchers had discovered one of the 500 cliff dwellings and 4,800 archaeological sites that dot the 52,074 acres that today make up MESA VERDE NATIONAL PAR...