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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabit...
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  • 22 February 2014
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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Price: $19.95
Pages: 332
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 22 February 2014
ISBN: 9780520957930
Format: eBook
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Illustrations xi
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv

Introduction: The Hidden History of American Conservation 1
PART I. Forest: The Adirondacks
1. The Re-creation of Nature 11
2. Public Property and Private Parks 29
3. Working-Class Wilderness 48

PART II. Mountain: Yellowstone
4. Nature and Nation 81
5. Fort Yellowstone 99
6. Modes of Poaching and Production 121

PART III. Desert: The Grand Canyon
7. The Havasupai Problem 149
8. Farewell Song 171

Epilogue: Landscapes of Memory and Myth Chronology of American Conservation Notes 203
Bibliography 267
Index 293

Afterword 199
Chronology of American Conservation 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 273
Index 299