National parks : the American experience / Alfred Runte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Runte, Alfred, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National parks and reserves--United States--History.

National parks and reserves.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 317 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition.

Place of Publication:

Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Revised with a new epilogue and iconic national park art, this fifth edition of National Parks: The American Experience tells the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. Further supported with period photographs, it remains a stirring look into the lands that define America, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to wilderness Alaska. This is how we got our parks, and yes, how we occasionally failed them, and in doing so failed ourselves."--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The American West

2. Yellowstone

3. Worthless Lands

4. The March of Monumentalism

5. See America First

6. Complete Conservation

7. Ecology Denied

8. Schemers and Standard-Bearers

9. Tradition Triumphant

10. The Lesson of the Big Trees

11. Ideals and Controversies of Expansion

12. Decision in Alaska

13. Into the Twenty-First Century: Encirclement and Uncertainty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781493061822

1493061828

OCLC:

1225067711

Publisher Number:

99989607983