Cover

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I The Genesis of an Idea

II The Nation's First National Park

III The Early Years in Yellowstone: 1872-1882

IV The Early Years in Yellowstone: 1882-1886

V The Saving of a Park and a System: 1886-1889

VI The Development of Policy: 1889-1894

VII The Development of a Legal Structure

VIII The Extension of the System: Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant National Parks

IX The Culmination of an Idea

Epilogue

Bibliography

Notes

Index (omitted from the online edition)

1. The Three Brothers, Yosemite Valley.
2. Map of Yellowstone National Park.
3. Old Faithful, Yellowstone Park.
4. Mammoth Terraces, Yellowstone Park.
5. President Taft's party at Wawona Tree, Mariposa Grove, 1090. This tree toppled in 1969.
6. George S. Anderson and pet bear cub.
7. Soldiers on rifle range, about 1900.
8. Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point, 1855; lithograph from drawing by Thomas A. Ayres.
9. Soldiers and others at post Exchange, Mammoth (Fort Yellowstone).
10. Soda Butte Soldier Station, Yellowstone, 1905.
11. Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Pitcher, Park Superintendent, Yellowstone, 1903.

Copyright © 1971 by the Indiana University Press.
All rights reserved.
Manufactured in the United States of America

No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Press Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.

Library of Congress catalog card number: 70-165046
ISBN 0-253-13885-N

For Ander, Weed, and Beef