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- Saving Yellowstone : exploration and preservation in Reconstruction America / by Nelson, Megan Kate,1972-author.(CARDINAL)315626;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.Prologue: Lost -- The interest of one is the interest of all -- Pulse of the continent -- The grandest achievement of our lives -- A wilderness of people -- No middle ground -- The most remarkable scenery in the world -- If you do not stop them, we will -- Order, chaos -- To consecrate for public use -- Bullets flying all around -- A country unsettled -- Epilogue: Wonderland."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. Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park-one of the most popular of all national parks-but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led a team of scientists through a narrow canyon into Yellowstone Basin, entering one of the last unmapped places in the country. The survey's discoveries led to the passage of the Yellowstone Act in 1872, which created the first national park in the world. Now, author Megan Kate Nelson examines the larger context of this American moment, illuminating Hayden's survey as a national project meant to give Americans a sense of achievement and unity in the wake of a destructive civil war. Saving Yellowstone follows Hayden and two other protagonists in pursuit of their own agendas: Sitting Bull, a Lakota leader who asserted his peoples' claim to their homelands, and financier Jay Cooke, who wanted to secure his national reputation by building the Northern Pacific Railroad through the Great Northwest. Hayden, Cooke, and Sitting Bull staked their claims to Yellowstone at a critical moment in Reconstruction, when the Grant Administration and the 42nd Congress were testing the reach and the purpose of federal power across the nation. 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"--- Subjects: Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887.; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.);
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- Annual report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories ... by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)(CARDINAL)319793; Hayden, F. V.(Ferdinand Vandeveer),1829-1887.(CARDINAL)318925; United States.Department of the Interior.(CARDINAL)155655;
No more published. Survey was discontinued by act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1879, and the United States Geological Survey established in its stead.- Subjects: Periodicals.; Geology; Paleontology;
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- History of North American pinnipeds, a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears and seals of North America. / by Allen, J. A.(Joel Asaph),1838-1921.;
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- Subjects: Pinnipedia; Mammals;
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- Annual report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories ... by Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.)(CARDINAL)318924; Hayden, F. V.(Ferdinand Vandeveer),1829-1887.(CARDINAL)318925; United States.Department of the Interior.(CARDINAL)155655;
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- Subjects: Periodicals.; Discoveries in geography; Geology; Paleontology;
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- Wheeler's photographic survey of the American West, 1871-1873 / by O'Sullivan, Timothy H.,1840-1882.(CARDINAL)163602; Bell, William,1830-1910.(CARDINAL)363554; Wheeler, George M.(George Montague),1842-1905.(CARDINAL)320116; Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)(CARDINAL)320114;
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- Fur-bearing animals: a monograph of North American Mustelidae, in which an account of the wolverene, the martens or sables, the ermine, the mink and various other kinds of weasels, several species of skunks, the badger, the land and sea otters, and numerous exotic allies of these animals, is contributed to the history of North American mammals. / by Coues, Elliott,1842-1899.(CARDINAL)150590;
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- Hitherto unpublished plates of Tertiary Mammalia and Permian Vertebrata / by Cope, E. D.(Edward Drinker),1840-1897.(CARDINAL)124856; Matthew, William Diller,1871-1930.(CARDINAL)320085; American Museum of Natural History.(CARDINAL)138269; Geological Survey (U.S.)(CARDINAL)154385;
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- Subjects: Vertebrates, Fossil.; Paleontology; Paleontology;
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- Boundaries of the United States and the several States : with miscellaneous geographic information concerning areas, altitudes, and geographic centers / by Van Zandt, Franklin K.,1903-(CARDINAL)285514; Geological Survey (U.S.)(CARDINAL)154385;
Bibliography: pages 181-185.Preface -- Expansion and growth of the United States -- Boundary problems -- How boundaries are established and chabged -- Boundaries of the United States -- Additions to the territory of the United States -- Interests of the United States beyond its borders -- The public domain and the changes therein -- The boundary lines of the states -- General statistics relating to the United States.- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Boundaries, areas, geographic centers, and altitudes of the United States and the several states : with a brief record of important changes in their territory and government / by Douglas, E. M.,(Edward Morehouse),1855-1932,author.; Geological Survey (U.S.);
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Physical geography;
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- Birds of the Northwest : a hand-book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries / by Coues, Elliott,1842-1899.(CARDINAL)150590; Hayden, F. V.(Ferdinand Vandeveer),1829-1887.(CARDINAL)318925; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)(CARDINAL)319793;
Includes bibliographic citations.Introduction. pp. v-xi.Order Passerres. pp. 1-259.Order Picariae. pp. 260-295.Order Psittaci. pp. 296-297.Order Raptores. pp. 298-384.Order Columbae. pp. 385-390.Order Gallinae. pp. 391-447.Order Grallatores. pp. 448-544.Order Lamellirostres. pp. 544-586.Order Steganopodes. pp. 587-589.Order Longipennes. pp. 590-717. Monograph of North American Laridae.Order Pygopodes. pp. 718-737. Monograph of North American Colymbidae and Podicipidae.General Index. pp. 738-791.This volume is based mainly on an unpublished report prepared by Coues in 1862 from the ornithological collections of F.V. Hayden and G.H. Trook taken during an expedition under Captain W.F. Raynolds, United States Engineers. The author preserved the "List of Specimens" tabulated in the original report, and extended the list with additional material from other collection trips in the West to compile what amounted to a "treatise on the Ornithology of the Western Territories," a desire expressed by F.V. Hayden to Coues.- Subjects: Birds;
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