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Author : Aubrey L. Haines,United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : IND:30000050552987
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2834 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024274464
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019598577
Author : Dennis Drabelle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496230140
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, a question naturally arises: where did the idea for a national park originate? The answer starts with a look at pre-Yellowstone America. With nothing to put up against Europe’s cultural pearls—its cathedrals, castles, and museums—Americans came to realize that their plentitude of natural wonders might compensate for the dearth of manmade attractions. That insight guided the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as he organized his thoughts on how to manage the wilderness park centered on Yosemite Valley, a state-owned predecessor to the national park model of Yellowstone. Haunting those thoughts were the cluttered and carnival-like banks of Niagara Falls, which served as an oft-cited example of what should not happen to a spectacular natural phenomenon. Olmsted saw city parks as vital to the pursuit of happiness and wanted them to be established for all to enjoy. When he wrote down his philosophy for managing Yosemite, a new and different kind of park, one that preserves a great natural site in the wilds, he had no idea that he was creating a visionary blueprint for national parks to come. Dennis Drabelle provides a history of the national park concept, adding to our understanding of American environmental thought and linking Olmsted with three of the country’s national treasures. Published in time to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park on March 1, 2022, and the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted on April 26, 2022, The Power of Scenery tells the fascinating story of how the national park movement arose, evolved, and has spread around the world.
Author : Ernesto Capello,Julia B. Rosenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000228823
During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of expeditionary lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic aesthetics, and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians.
Author : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1598450875
Learn about Yellowstone National Park's history and varied attractions, including Old Faithful, Lower Geyser Basin, and Tower Fall, as well as its resident wildlife.
Author : Alfred Runte
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781589794740
In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly engaging story of the development of our national parks, from the first national park, Yellowstone, to the more recent decision to set aside vast tracts of Alaska for preservation.
Author : Richard West Sellars
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300075782
This book traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in the national parks, America’s most treasured landscapes. It spans the period from the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 to near the present, analyzing the management of fires, predators, elk, bear, and other natural phenomena in parks such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains.
Author : Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826341179
Whittlesey shares tales of "the great Geyserland" as told by the earliest tour guides of America's first and most unique national park.
Author : Alfred Runte
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781570984389
A thoroughly revised and expanded successor to Alfred Runte’s Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks, the new edition now includes protected landscapes and historical sites east of the Mississippi made possible or influenced by railroads: the Hudson River Valley; Delaware Water Gap; Harpers Ferry; Indiana Dunes; Gettysburg; Steamtown; and Shenandoah, Great Smoky Mountains, and Acadia National Parks. Illustrated with paintings, posters, photographs, and artifacts from major libraries and public archives, as well as America’s railroads and the author’s private collection, this book is a sight to behold as well as a wonderful, nostalgic armchair read.
Author : Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300190380
A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087298406
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aspen
ISBN : UIUC:30112048244542
Author : Paul Schullery,Lee H. Whittlesey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0803243057
Does a beloved institution need its own myths to survive? Can conservationists avoid turning their heroes into legends? Should they try? 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 on only greed and growth. Perhaps that is why the park’s “creation myth” portrayed a few saintlike pioneer conservationists laboring to set aside this unique wilderness against all odds. In fact, the establishment of Yellowstone was the result of complex social, scientific, economic, and aesthetic forces. Its creators were not saints but mortal humans with the full range of ideals and impulses known to the species. Authors 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 the long, painful process by which the myth was reconsidered and replaced with a more realistic and ultimately more satisfying story. In this evocative exploration of Yellowstone’s creation myth, the authors trace the evolution of the legend, its rise to incontrovertible truth, and its revelation as a mysterious and troubling episode that remains part folklore, part wish, and part history. This study demonstrates the passions stirred by any challenge to cherished national memories, just as it honors the ideals and dreams represented by our national myths.
Author : Richard A. Bartlett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806116536
After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay west of the hundredth meridian in the vast American wilderness. Parties led by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, medical doctor turned geologist, Clarence King, aristocrat and intellectual, John Wesley Powell, conqueror of the Colorado River, and Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, determined military man and scientist, roamed over the wild country during the years 1867-79, observing, analyzing, mapping, and at the end of each season, returning to Washington to publish their results. For the first time in book form, Richard A. Bartlett has recreated for the reader the hardships, both physical and financial, the discoveries, and the high adventures of the bold, headstrong, and often brilliant men of the Great Surveys as they climbed the Rockies, explored the Yellowstone, or battled the Colorado.