National parks
Subtitle: the American experience
By: Alfred Runte.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781589794733; 9781589794757; 9781589794740
Subjects: National parks and reserves -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Paradise lost; title: The American West; title: Yellowstone; title: Worthless lands; title: The march of monumentalism; title: See America first; title: Complete conservation; title: Ecology denied; title: Schemers and standard bearers; title: Tradition triumphant; title: The lesson of the big trees; title: Ideals and controversies of expansion; title: Decision in Alaska; title: Into the twenty-first century : encirclement and uncertainty; title: Epilogue: The future of national parks.