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Title: Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness by Paul D. Schullery ISBN: 0-395-84174-7 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Yellowstone 101
Comment: 'Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in knowing the "Yellowstone story" at a deeper level than the interpretive signs or tourist pamphlets. This would be excellent (and easy) "pre-reading" for anyone contemplating a first trip to Yellowstone....but it is also a fascinating and sometimes surprising eye-opener for someone (like me) who was somewhat familiar with Yellowstone already. From the perspective only a former Yellowstone employee and prolific writer/researcher could bring, Schullery persuasively argues-not unlike the "new western historians" in their iconoclastic reassessment of the American west and its history)-that Yellowstone is not so much a place as a process...a process of how we as Americans define a national park. Schullery's measured tour through this process provides a sobering reminder to inveterate tree-huggers like me that a national park is not a wilderness area, as much as I might like it to be in terms of "hands off" preservation. Schullery's approach is matter-of-fact, methodically researched (I actually enjoyed reading the copious "notes" section separately after having finished the book) and myth-busting at times (e.g. that surprisingly, the total number of developed acres in Yellowstone has actually decreased during the last 40 years rather than increased). He doesn't even spare himself, needling enthusiastic fly-fishers like himself with the sad-but-true fact that if we treated the ungulates of Yellowstone the same way fishermen do a Yellowstone trout (which was probably introduced in the first place rather than native), we would be cited for abusing the wildlife. A very readable and important book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book about Yellowstone NP so far
Comment: I read this book in a week and was quite impressed with the breadth of history covered in 260 something pages, not counting notes. I was glad to see that this historical account began with an "anthropological" perspective by recounting the known presence of Native American tribes prior to the EuroAmerican "discovery" of the place and the manner in which they were extricated from the ecosystem. I was also impressed with the historical information relating the misuse, management practices and policies that affected the life of the park once it was established and what changes have been implemented in recent years. The notes following the text were very helpful in leading me to other books and records that I would like to examine. A fine book that I purchased after reading the library copy!
Rating: 5
Summary: Cuts through the hype to expose the reality of Yellowstone
Comment: It's difficult, while standing in a crowd in front of Old Faithful, to tell what Yellowstone really means to us. We often define or judge the park based on our expectations of it, but its real value in many ways hovers far beyond our narrow expectations.
In Searching for Yellowstone, newly available in paperback, consummate park historian Paul Schullery slices through human fanfare and rhetoric that surrounds so many park issues today and traces Yellowstone's true history in a methodical and understated way that lets the park speak for itself for a change. If you come to this book with an open mind, Schullery may open it even wider.
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Title: The Social Creation of Nature by Neil Evernden, Lorne Leslie Neil Evernden ISBN: 0801845483 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks by Robert B. Smith, Lee J. Siegel ISBN: 0195105974 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Yellowstone: A Visitor's Companion by George Wuerthner ISBN: 0811730786 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Post-Cowboy Economics: Pay and Prosperity in the New American West by Thomas Micahel Power, Richard Barrett ISBN: 1559638214 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Yellowstone Story : A History of Our First National Park : Volume 1 by Aubrey L. Haines ISBN: 0870813900 Publisher: University Press of Colorado Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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