Megan Kate Nelson

Megan Kate Nelson is the author of Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America. Her previous book, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize. 

Aerial view of flooding in Livingston, Montana—a gateway town near Yellowstone National Park—on June 14, 2022

What Extreme Flooding in Yellowstone Means for the National Park's Gateway Towns

These communities rely almost entirely on tourism for their existence—yet too much tourism, not to mention climate change, can destroy them

The exploration and preservation of Yellowstone in 1871 and 1872 has long been recognized as a central moment in the history of American conservation. Less well known is its role in shaping Lakota history and U.S. Indian policy.

How Sitting Bull's Fight for Indigenous Land Rights Shaped the Creation of Yellowstone National Park

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty

A Brief History of the Stoplight

How a bright idea shaped our cities and gave the go-ahead to our love affair with the car

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