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" The state park movement in America : "
Ney C. Landrum
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BL
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587458
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b416677
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Landrum, Ney C.,1931-
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The state park movement in America : : a critical review /\ Ney C. Landrum
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xv, 288 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0826215009
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: 9780826215000
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272)
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| Contents
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"Parks Americana" -- The nature of parks -- The states begin to stir: state park initiatives in the nineteenth century -- The momentum builds: state parks expansion in the early twentieth century -- Coalescence: the first national conference on parks -- "A state park every hundred miles": the national conference on the state parks goes to work -- Dubious progress: assessing the relevance of the national conference on state parks -- An unexpected boon: economic recovery and a new deal for state parks -- Recovery and beyond: depression-era initiatives look to the future -- A major interruption: wartime distraction and postwar rebound -- The continuing search for direction: the ever-resilient national conference on state parks -- A new era of federal-state cooperation -- Signs of maturity -- A look behind the scenes: issues and influences that shape the state park system -- Anything goes: an age of expansion, experimentation, and expediency -- Looking to the future: the view from one observer's soapbox
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Annotation
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Parks-- United States-- History
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333.78/3/0973
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SB482.A4L36 2004
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