America's National Parks: 11 Classic Books on Natural Beauty and Conservation
Classic Writings on Yellowstone, Yosemite, Wilderness, and the American Conservation IdealBy United States National Park Service, Hiram Martin Chittenden, Robert Sterling Yard, Jesse Walter Fewkes, G. F. Allen, James Willard Schultz, Nathaniel Pitt Langford, United States. Department of the Interior, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
Length47h 22m
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America's National Parks gathers eleven foundational texts that chart the emergence of the United States' park ideal through description, advocacy, scientific observation, travel writing, and public interpretation. Across official reports, evocative landscapes, Indigenous-adjacent regional accounts, and arguments for preservation, the volume records how natural beauty became a matter of national responsibility. Its standout materials illuminate iconic western scenery while also revealing the administrative and imaginative labor through which parks were made legible to a broad public. The collection brings together National Park Service and Department of the Interior publications with the work of influential early park advocates, explorers, ethnologists, and writers, including Hiram Martin Chittenden, Robert Sterling Yard, Jesse Walter Fewkes, James Willard Schultz, and Nathaniel Pitt Langford. Their differing institutional and literary positions situate the anthology within Progressive Era conservation, the professionalization of federal stewardship, and the broader cultural construction of wilderness as national heritage. Read together, these voices disclose both the aspirations and assumptions embedded in early preservation discourse. This volume is especially valuable for students of environmental history, American literature, public policy, and western cultural history. It offers a rare opportunity to compare documentary authority with lyrical celebration and practical advocacy, fostering a rich dialogue about conservation's ideals, histories, and enduring consequences.
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GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length47 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Book of the National Parks
2The Book of the National Parks
3PREFACE
4I
5III
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6IV
7V
8THE VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARKS
9IX
10XI
11XIV
12XV
13XVII
14XIX
15The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive (pt. 1)
16The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive (pt. 2)
17The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive (pt. 3)
18The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive (pt. 4)
19The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive (pt. 5)
20The Discovery of Yellowstone Park
21INTRODUCTION
22JOURNAL (pt. 1)
23JOURNAL (pt. 2)
24APPENDIX.
25Grand Teton: A Guide to Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
26Grand Teton: A Guide to Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
27Grand Teton
28Part 3 Guide and Adviser
29Handbook 122
30Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park
31Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park
32List of Images
33MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
34The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park
35The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park
36PUBLICATIONS ON MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK SOLD BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS.
37INDEX TO SPECIES DESCRIBED.
38Sequoia [California] National Park
39Sequoia [California] National Park
40SEQUOIA
41DO YOU KNOW YOUR NATIONAL PARKS?
42Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace
43Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace
44INTRODUCTION
45RECENT HISTORY
46ENUMERATION OF THE ROOMS IN CLIFF PALACE
47MINOR ANTIQUITIES
48HUMAN BURIALS
49Mesa Verde [Colorado] National Park
50Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
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