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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America

by Megan Kate Nelson

Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park—one of the most popular of all national parks—but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led a team of scientists through a narrow canyon into Yellowstone Basin, entering one of the last

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781982141332