Saving Yellowstone : exploration and preservation in Reconstruction America
Title:
Saving Yellowstone : exploration and preservation in Reconstruction America
JLCTITLE245:
Megan Kate Nelson.
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Edition:
Unabridged.
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2022]
Physical Description:
7 audio discs (8.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781797140018
9781797140025
General Note:
Title from container.
Compact discs.
Abstract:
From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the propulsive and vividly told story of how Yellowstone became the world's first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era. A narrative of adventure and exploration, Saving Yellowstone is also a story of Indigenous resistance, the expansive reach of railroad, photographic, and publishing technologies, and the struggles of Black southerners to bring racial terrorists to justice. It reveals how the early 1870s were a turning point in the nation's history, as white Americans ultimately abandoned the the higher ideal of equality for all people, creating a much more fragile and divided United States.
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Performer:
Read by Cynthia Farrell.
Chronological Term:
1800-1899