03058cam a2200349 i 4500 771867010 TxAuBib 20220611120000.0 220326s2022||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2022932964 9781638083405 1638083401 (OCoLC)1305912519 YDX eng rda YDX DON OCLCO TxAuBib rda Nelson, Megan Kate, 1972-, author. Saving Yellowstone [Large Print] : exploration and preservation in Reconstruction America / Megan Kate Nelson. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2022. 397 pages (large print) : maps, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Scribner. Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-395). 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. "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."-- Provided by publisher. 20220611. Hayden, F. V Ferdinand Vandeveer 1829-1887. Large type books. Yellowstone National Park History 19th century. Yellowstone National Park Discovery and exploration.