TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orsi, Richard J.
AU  - Runte, Alfred,
AU  - Smith-Baranzini, Marlene.
TI  - Yosemite and Sequoia: a century of California national parks 
SN  - 520081617
AV  - F 868.Y6 .Y831 1993
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - Berkeley :;San Francisco
PB  - University of California Press ;;California Historical Society
KW  - National parks and reserves
KW  - California
N1  - The introduction and first seven essays ... originally published in California History 69, no. 2 (Summer 1990)--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-141) and index; Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks : one hundred years of preservation and resource management / Lary M. Dilsaver and Douglas H. Strong -- Visiting "the realm of wonder" : Yosemite and the business of tourism, 1855-1916 / Peter J. Blodgett -- Sublime vistas and scenic backdrops : nineteenth-century painters and photographers at Yosemite / Kate Nearpass Ogden -- From stagecoach to Packard twin six : Yosemite and the changing face of tourism, 1880-1930 / Anne F. Hyde -- Joseph Grinnell and Yosemite : rediscovering the legacy of a California conservationist / Alfred Runte -- In harmony with the landscape : Yosemite's built environment, 1913-1940 / Robert C. Pavlik -- Conservation conflict and the founding of Kings Canyon National Park / Lary M. Dilsaver -- Planning Yosemite's future : a historical retrospective / Alfred Runte
N2  - A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to the valley. By 1890, however, a public park system was firmly established in California when the Yosemite high country and much of what is now Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks were set aside as federally protected, public preserves. This collection of essays and photographs, originally published as a special issue of "California History," documents the creation and management of California's first three national parks. As the essays remind us, the issues of park development so hotly debated today were raised first in Yosemite nearly a century ago. Yosemite's significance in landscape art, its role in the development of western tourism, and its promotion as one of the great icons of American culture are among the other major themes discussed here. www.alibris.com
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