On Strawberry Hill : the transcendent love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling / Paula Ivaska Robbins ; foreword by Char Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robbins, Paula I., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.

Pinchot, Gifford.

Houghteling, Laura, -1894.

Houghteling, Laura.

Conservationists--United States--Biography.

Conservationists.

History.

United States.

United States--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

113 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]

Summary:

On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling is a human interest story that cuts a neat slice across nineteenth-century America by bringing into juxtaposition a wide array of topics germane to the period-the national fascination with spiritualism, the death scourge that was tuberculosis, the rise of sanitariums and tourism in the southern highlands, the expansion of railroad travel, the rage for public parklands and playgrounds, and the development of professional forestry and green preservation-all through the very personal love story of two young blue bloods. Book jacket.

Contents:

Asheville Becomes a Tourist Destination 3

Gifford Pinchot 11

Neighbors 19

Consumption Becomes Tuberculosis 33

Washington, DC 37

Transcendent Love 45

Spiritualism 49

Gifford's Career after Laura's Death 63

The Administration of President Theodore Roosevelt 71

The Administration of President William H. Taft 79

Marriage to Cornelia Bryce 85

Pisgah Forest 93

After Strawberry Hill 97.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113).

ISBN:

9780817358945

0817358943

0817390944

9780817390945

OCLC:

957705143