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Death Valley National Park : a history / Hal K. Rothman and Char Miller.

Title
Death Valley National Park : a history / Hal K. Rothman and Char Miller.
Author
Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007.
Publication
Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2013]

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Additional Authors
Miller, Char, 1951-
Description
xii, 185 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm
Summary
The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape were convinced that its stark beauty should be preserved, to do so required a reconceptualization of what a park consists of, grassroots and national support for its creation, and a long and difficult political struggle to secure congressional sanction.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Before monument -- On the periphery: Death Valley National Monument, 1933-1965 -- Changing the meaning of desert: Death Valley National Monument, 1965-1994 -- Native Americans and the park -- Managing Death Valley -- Death Valley in the twenty-first century.
ISBN
  • 9780874179255 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0874179254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780874179262 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2013007479
OCLC
829098336
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library