Selling Yellowstone
Subtitle: capitalism and the construction of nature
By: Mark Daniel Barringer.
Series: Development of western resources
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Concessions (Amusements, etc.) -- Yellowstone National Park -- History.; Resort development -- Yellowstone National Park -- History.; Land use -- Yellowstone National Park -- History.; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Yellowstone National Park -- History.; Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- Yellowstone National Park -- History.; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Yellowstone National Park -- History.; Yellowstone National Park -- History.; Yellowstone National Park -- Economic conditions.; Yellowstone National Park -- Environmental conditions.
Description: "For over a century, Yellowstone National Park has been a monument to America's wilderness. But long before flames swept through Yellowstone in 1988, the natural wildness of the park was being encroached upon as it became one of our nation's most commodified pieces of real estate.".

"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.