The Most Hated Man in Yellowstone: Yellowstone National Park

It’s hard to get an entire National Park to hate you … unless your name is EC Waters. Considered one of the most despised men to have ever stepped foot in Yellowstone, Waters left his mark - for better or worse - on the world’s first park. The owner of the first bating company to operate on Yellowstone Lake, he was obnoxious, petty and ran a zoo from hell. He was kicked out of the park multiple times before being exiled forever, but his namesake - a ship that bears his name - can still be seen in Yellowstone today.

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Articles: 

• Yellowstone Outlaw E.C. Waters Ripped Off Rich Visitors, Ran A Zoo Of Horrors: Cowboy State Daily

• The Misadventures of EC Waters: USGS

• Yellowstone Lake’s Steamships and the Legacy of E.C. Waters: Intermountain Histories 

• A Steamboat in Yellowstone: Denver Library

• The Wreck of the EC Waters: Atlas Obscura 

Videos: 

• Ship Wrecked in Yellowstone?: USGS

Book: 

• Wrecked in Yellowstone: Greed, Obsession and the Untold Story of Yellowstone's Most Infamous Shipwreck