Yellowstone's lure draws 3 million visitors to state

If you like tourism like I do, then it is easy to appreciate what Yellowstone National Park means to Wyoming.

Some 3 million folks come to the world’s first national park each year. Almost a third of them are international tourists.

This reality came to me when a young Asian woman sat next to me recently on a flight from New Orleans to Denver.

It was hard for me to determine if she was American or one of those international tourists. It was also hard to figure out how old she was and what she was doing. She appeared to be traveling alone.

Then an older Asian woman came up the aisle and...