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Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks

With its raging geysers and howling wolf packs, Yellowstone stands as one last pocket of a wild, primeval America.

A cowboy on horseback leads another horse in front of a historic barn and the snow-capped Grand Tetons in Mormon Row

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