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Three landscapes: An excerpt from Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea

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https://doi.org/10.5070/P538358972
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Abstract

The authors situate the intellectual foundations of the US national park system in the thinking of Frederick Law Olmsted, and analyze how Olmsted himself was shaped by the Civil War.


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