| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 185 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Before monument -- On the periphery: Death Valley National Monument, 1933-1965 -- Changing the meaning of desert: Death Valley National Monument, 1965-1994 -- Native Americans and the park -- Managing Death Valley -- Death Valley in the twenty-first century. |
| Summary |
"The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape were convinced that its stark beauty should be preserved, to do so required a reconceptualization of what a park consists of, grassroots and national support for its creation, and a long and difficult political struggle to secure congressional sanction"--Publisher's website |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.) -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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United States -- Death Valley National Park |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Miller, Char, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rothman, Hal, 1958-2007. Death Valley National Park 9780874179255 (DLC) 2013007479 (OCoLC)829098336 |
| ISBN |
9780874179262 (electronic bk.) |
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0874179262 (electronic bk.) |
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9780874179255 |
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0874179254 |
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