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it began with just one park in 1872 Nature had endowed Yellowstone with a dream haven't you but since then the United States National Park System has grown tremendously 400 areas now covering 84 million acres across all 50 states an incredible success story often called America's greatest idea but how did it all come about find out in a brief history of the National Park System the concept of a national park is largely credited to George Catlin an American painter who in 1832 travelled across the Great Plains to document disappearing Native American tribes by some great protecting policy of government Caitlin argued for a magnificent park a nation's park containing man and beast in all the wildness and freshness of their nature's beauty a few decades later in 1872 Callens dream came true when a natural Wonderland spanning Wyoming Montana and Idaho became the world's first official National Park they called it Yellowstone here is one of the most unspoiled regions on earth but visitors m