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Dispossessing the wilderness : Indian removal and the making of the national parks / Mark David Spence.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: viii, 190 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195118820 (acid-free paper)
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Contents:
From common ground -- Looking backward and westward: the "Indian wilderness" in the antebellum era -- The wild West, or toward separate islands -- Before the wilderness: native peoples and Yellowstone -- First wilderness: America's wonderland and Indian removal from Yellowstone National Park -- Backbone of the world: the Blackfeet and the Glacier National Park area -- Crowning the continent: the American wilderness ideal and Blackfeet exclusion from Glacier National Park -- The heart of the Sierras, 1864-1916 -- Yosemite Indians and the National Park ideal, 1916-1969 -- Exceptions and the rule.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks E98.R4S64 1999 1 Available 33710000881354

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-179) and index.

From common ground -- Looking backward and westward: the "Indian wilderness" in the antebellum era -- The wild West, or toward separate islands -- Before the wilderness: native peoples and Yellowstone -- First wilderness: America's wonderland and Indian removal from Yellowstone National Park -- Backbone of the world: the Blackfeet and the Glacier National Park area -- Crowning the continent: the American wilderness ideal and Blackfeet exclusion from Glacier National Park -- The heart of the Sierras, 1864-1916 -- Yosemite Indians and the National Park ideal, 1916-1969 -- Exceptions and the rule.

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