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Category : Geological surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reports of Explorations Printed in the Documents of the United States Government
Author: Reports of Explorations Printed in the Documents of the United States Government
Author: Adelaide Rosalia HassePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Wolves for Yellowstone?: Research and analysis
Author: Wolves for Yellowstone?: Research & analysis
Author: Yellowstone National ParkPublisher:
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Category : Animal introduction
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Vol. 3-4 edited by John D. Varley and Wayne G. Brewster; Sarah E. Broadbent and Renee Evanoff, technical editors.
Dispossessing the Wilderness
Author: Mark David SpencePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Colton StormPublisher: University of Chicago Press
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Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Phil Sheridan and His Army
Author: Paul Andrew HuttonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806176571
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
"Paul Hutton’s study of Phil Sheridan in the West is authoritative, readable, and an important contribution to the literature of westward expansion. Although headquartered in Chicago, Sheridan played a crucial role in the opening of the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies and from Mexico to Canada, and all the Indian Wars of the Great Plains fell under his direction. Hutton ably narrates and interprets Sheridan’s western career from the perspective of the top command rather than the battlefield leader. His book is good history and good reading."–Robert M. Utley
Yellowstone, Land of Wonders
Author: Jules LeclercqPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496211707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.
Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Sherman Tour Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Author: Richard Irving DodgePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to the Pacific Northwest, south through California, and east through the Southwest to Denver. Dodge had no idea his journals would ever become public, so he wrote openly about his companions and their interactions, terrain and natural wonders, conditions of military posts, life in civilian communities, and what the future seemed to hold for the region and its changing population.