Dispossessing the Wilderness Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks

Mark David Spence

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This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195118827
Publisher:	OUP USA
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	27 May 1999
DEWEY:	978.00497
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	190
Weight:	408g
Height:	239mm
Width:	158mm
Spine width:	15mm