Yellowstone to Yosemite: Kevin Costner tells the 'stranger than fiction' story of taming the American frontier

Sometimes information is alien than fiction. 

It's an aged adage, one Kevin Costner says holds particularly existent successful the communicative of the untamed American frontier.

The "Field of Dreams" and "Dances with Wolves" fable brings this thought to beingness successful "Yellowstone to Yosemite," a new three-part Fox Nation series that explores however a seemingly unrelated drawstring of events acceptable the signifier for 1 of the astir pivotal moments successful American history.

"It's a communicative astir a confluence of tragic events separated by clip and abstraction intersecting successful a seemingly intolerable manner. And someway thing unthinkable came retired of each of it," Costner explained.

"A young lad suffering from terrible asthma, a president's assassination, a horrible mishap astatine a wagon instrumentality mill – unrelated events successful astir people's minds, but they each needed to hap for this communicative to unfold, for 2 men to travel unneurotic for 3 days retired successful the wild. Three days that would alteration America forever…"

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Kevin Costner successful "Yellowstone to Yosemite." (Fox Nation)

"That's a story worthy telling, don't you think?"

Costner teamed up with the Fox Nation level for "Yellowstone to Yosemite" pursuing the occurrence of his breakout hit, "Yellowstone: One-Fifty."

Through the Hollywood legend's distinctive perspective, the caller bid traces the footsteps of President Teddy Roosevelt and biology advocator John Muir's pivotal 1903 Yosemite expedition.

In the process, helium brings to beingness the communicative of America's indigenous legacy, the outsiders that came on and however Muir became a crusader for America's wildest places.

"Two men embark connected a camping trip. These 2 men person ne'er met before. They pushed done dense snow, get soaked with rainfall and lavation down steaks with blistery coffee," helium explained.

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"They didn't acceptable retired to alteration America, but what they dreamed up astir the campfire – immoderate mightiness telephone it ingenious. Others mightiness accidental cunning. But, boy, did it work."

The elements of the tale, each indispensable to preserving the captivating communicative of the American frontier, led to America's much structured National Park System contiguous – 150 National Forests, 5 National Parks, on with the preservation and extortion of 230 cardinal acres of land.

The bid debuted connected the Fox Nation platform implicit the weekend, with caller episodes dropping each week.

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