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Yount served two terms in the Union Army during the Civil War. He enlisted for a six month term in November, 1861. He was wounded and taken prisoner by the Confederates in March, 1862, and held as POW for nearly a month, until released in a prisoner exchange. He re-enlisted in August, 1862 and served until the end of the war. He was promoted three times and was a Company Quartermaster Sergeant when he was discharged in July, 1865.

He worked as a hunter and a prospector and as a bullwhacker for the U.S. Army in the years following the Civil War. For seven years in the 1870s, he worked as a guide for the Hayden Geological Survey, which mapped broad swaths of the Rocky Mountains.

In 1880, Young was hired to be the first gamekeeper in Yellowstone National Park, and during his 13 months in that job, wrote two annual reports to the Secretary of the Interior, which were then submitted to Congress. His reports described the challenges of protecting the wildlife in the first U.S national park. He is considered to be the first national park ranger.