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100 1 _aDiamant, Rolf,
_eauthor.
_981922
245 1 0 _aOlmsted and Yosemite :
_bCivil War, Abolition, and the National Park idea /
_cRolf Diamant and Ethan Carr.
264 1 _aAmherst, Massachusetts :
_bLibrary of American Landscape History,
_c[2022]
300 _a186 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical reference (pages [151]-165) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: three landscapes -- Abolishing slavery and building Central Park -- Remaking government and the Yosemite Grant -- National Parks and a National Park Service -- Conclusion: campfire tales -- Preliminary report upon the Yosemite and Big Tree Grove by Frederick Law Olmsted, August 1865.
520 _aA different narrative of the founding of the national park system. For far too long, all the credit for the national parks has been vested with either mythic "rugged Western pioneers" or a "visionary" like John Muir or Theodore Roosevelt. It is time to revisit Olmsted's Yosemite Report and its enduring vision of popular government using its resources to improve people's lives as an important element to those who fought for a new birth of American freedom. Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr demonstrate how anti-slavery activism, war, and the remaking of the federal government gave rise to the American public park and concept of national parks. The authors closely examine Frederick Law Olmsted's 1865 Yosemite Report--the key document that expresses the aspirational vision of making great public parks keystone institutions of a renewed liberal democracy. Both Central Park in New York and Yosemite Valley in California became public parks during the tumultuous years before and during the Civil War" --
600 1 0 _aOlmsted, Frederick Law,
_d1822-1903.
600 1 7 _aOlmsted, Frederick Law,
_d1822-1903.
_2fast
_981923
650 0 _aNational parks and reserves
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_981612
650 0 _aParks
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_xHistory.
650 0 _aParks
_zCalifornia
_zYosemite Valley
_xHistory.
_981924
650 0 _aNational parks and reserves
_zUnited States.
_981925
650 0 _aSlavery
_zUnited States.
_981926
651 0 _aYosemite Valley (Calif.)
_xHistory.
_981927
651 0 _aYosemite National Park (Calif.)
_xHistory.
_981613
651 0 _aCentral Park (New York, N.Y.)
_xHistory.
700 1 _aCarr, Ethan,
_eauthor.
_981928
856 _uhttps://depts.washington.edu/hortlib/book/olmsted-and-yosemite-civil-war-abolition-and-the-national-park-idea/
_yMiller Library review
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948 _hHELD BY WUY - 38 OTHER HOLDINGS
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