Selling Yellowstone

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Author: Mark Daniel Barringer

Publisher: Development of Western Resources

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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"For as long as they have existed, the national parks have been the scene of some of the most intensive commercial activity in the American West. Selling Yellowstone recounts the story of such activities in our oldest park from the 1870s through the 1960s. It is the first book to examine critically the role of business in the development of America's national parks, demonstrating how profit-driven entrepreneurs shaped the physical landscape of what is generally perceived as unaltered wilderness."--Jacket.

Report

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Author: United States. National Park Service

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 364

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Museums, Monuments, and National Parks

Museums, Monuments, and National Parks PDF

Author: Denise D. Meringolo

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1558499407

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The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into the work of collecting and preserving the nation's natural and cultural resources. Yet it was not until the emergence of the education-oriented National Park Service history program in the 1920s and 1930s that public history found an institutional home. Even then, tensions between administrators in Washington and practitioners on the ground at National Parks, monuments, and museums continued to redefine the scope and substance of the field. The process of definition persists to this day as public historians establish a growing presence in major universities throughout the United States and abroad. Book jacket.

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