Death Valley National Park
Subtitle: a history
By: Hal K. Rothman and Char Miller
Contributors: Miller, Char, 1951-
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780874179255; 9780874179262
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: History
Description: The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape were convinced that its stark beauty should be preserved, to do so required a reconceptualization of what a park consists of, grassroots and national support for its creation, and a long and difficult political struggle to secure congressional sanction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before monument; title: On the periphery: Death Valley National Monument, 1933-1965; title: Changing the meaning of desert: Death Valley National Monument, 1965-1994; title: Native Americans and the park; title: Managing Death Valley; title: Death Valley in the twenty-first century.