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Six questions about a bathhouse town protected before Yellowstone, a soap salesman who bought a park road with his own money, and a mountain named for a president who never saw it — all true.

Your first question:

On March 1, 1872, a president put his signature on a law setting aside two million acres of geysers and canyons “as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people” — and Yellowstone was born. Which president signed it?

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