The power of scenery : Frederick Law Olmsted and the origin of national parks / Dennis Drabelle.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]Description: xix, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 1496220773
- 9781496220776
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
- National parks and reserves -- United States -- History
- Conservationists -- United States -- Biography
- Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- History
- Yellowstone National Park -- History
- Niagara Falls State Park (N.Y.) -- History
- United States -- Environmental conditions -- 19th century
- SB482.A4 D73 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
You can have the Arno -- Land of the free and home of the sublime -- The counterexample -- An idea in embryo -- The landscape reader -- How to sell a park bill -- In praise of diligent indolence -- The nervous promoter -- Contested ground -- Whiffs of sulfur -- The man who picked up stones running -- Saving gravel -- A shaky start -- Cleaning men -- Going out with two bangs -- The Olmsteds.
"The Power of Scenery tells the story of how America's national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted's insights and energy serving to link three jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park"--