Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park

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Titel: Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park
Autor/en: Paul Schullery, Lee Whittlesey
ISBN: 0803243057
EAN: 9780803243057
Autor/en: Paul Schullery, Lee Whittlesey
ISBN: 0803243057
EAN: 9780803243057
New.
Sprache: Englisch.
Sprache: Englisch.
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
1. September 2003 - gebunden - 125 Seiten
Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society's vision seemed focused solely on greed and growth. Perhaps that is why the park's "creation myth" recounted how a few saintlike pioneer conservationists labored to set aside this unique wilderness against all odds, when in fact, the establishment of Yellowstone was the result of complex social, scientific, economic, and aesthetic forces. Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey, both longtime students of Yellowstone's complex history, present the first full account of how the fairy-tale origins of the park found universal public acceptance, and of the long process by which the myth was reconsidered and replaced with a more realistic and ultimately more satisfying story.
Paul Schullery is the author of many books on the American West, including Searching for Yellowstone and Old Yellowstone Days. He wrote and narrated the PBS film Yellowstone: America's Sacred Wilderness and is currently scholar-in-residence at Montana State University Library.
"This book is valuable because it offers a complex vision of the origins of the national park ideal rather than a simple campfire story, and it is accessible to general readers. It is also an interesting tale of the use, and possible misuse, of history."--Kathy S./i>--Kathy S. Mason "Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "
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