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Issues & Controversies in History provides extensive coverage of key issues in American and world history via pro/con arguments, primary source documents, timelines, background articles, and biographies.
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2) The making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the origin of America's most popular national park
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Publisher
Univ. Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.
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English
Description
"In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course...
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