Cover

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Map

Abbreviations

1. The Sequoia Stone Disk Incident

2. Pothunters and Professors

3. The Antiquities Act

4. The First Monuments

5. "Warning Sign" Preservation

6. Second-Class Sites

7. Boss Pinkley's Domain

8. Turf Wars

9. The New Deal and the National Monuments

10. History and the National Monuments

11. The Antiquities Act and the Modern Park System

Appendix. Chronology of National Monument Establishment

Bibliographic Essay

Index (omitted from online edition)

Note on the Author

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First published as Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments.
Copyright © 1989 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

This paperback edition is published by the University Press of Kansas by arrangement with the University of Illinois Press. All rights reserved.

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Z39.48-1984.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rothman, Hal, 1958-
  [Preserving different pasts]
  America's national monuments / Hal Rothman.
    p. cm.
  Originally published: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c.1989.
  ISBN 0-7006-0672-6 (paperback; alk. paper)
  1. National Monuments—United States. 2. Monuments—United States—Conservation and restoration. I. Title.
E159.R68 1994
363.6'9'0973—dc20

93-43439

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For my parents,
Neal and Rozann,

And in memory of
Lisa Eller Bruhn

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