The Discovery of Yellowstone Park: Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Langford, Nathaniel Pitt

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ISBN 10: 0803207107 ISBN 13: 9780803207103

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1972

Riassunto

With the ecological integrity of Yellowstone National Park in contention between developers and environmentalists, the events of its exploration and founding take on added interest. This Bison Books edition of Nathaniel P. Langford's journal brings back into print one of the principal sources of information on the exploration of the Yellowstone region and its establishment as America's first national park.

The findings of the 1870 Washburn expedition, of which Langford was a member, gave credence to the findings of the Folsom party of 1869 and resulted in the sending of a government survey party into the area in 1871. The culminating effect of the three expeditions was the federal legislation creating our first and largest national park and marking the beginning of the national concern for the preservation of America's heritage of wilderness beauty.

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L'autore:

For ten years (1960–69), Aubrey L. Haines was National Park Service historian. In addition to contributing the foreword to this book, he has edited Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper, also a Bison Book.

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0803207107
• ISBN 13: 9780803207103
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 125