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  • The Spirit of Yellowstone

    Yellowstone National Park's famous geysers, exotic landscape, and beautiful wildlife partially explain its enormous popularity, but there is something more to the Yellowstone experience—a powerful spirit to the place that is more than the sum of its parts. This fascinating history of America's favorite national park shows how that spirit has endured over Yellowstone's 127-year existence. Meyer ... Read more

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  • Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, generally manifests itself in the spring. Since marine species either die or ee the hypoxic zone, the spread of hypoxia reduces the available habitat for marine species, which are important for the ecosystem as well as ... Read more

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  • Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site

    Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of ecosystem diminishment and species loss has been slowed, an ecological thermostat has been kept alive. ... Read more

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  • The Power of Scenery

    Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks

    Featured in the ***Wall Street Journal’***s 2021 Holiday Gift Books GuideFinalist of the 2021 Marfield PrizeWallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” But where did the idea originate? Before Yellowstone, with nothing to put up against Europe’s cultural pearls—its cathedrals, castles, and museums—Americans came to realize that their plenitude of natural wonders might ... Read more

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  • Hubris, a Railroad Through the Grand Canyon, and the Death of Frank Mason Brown: A Parable for Our Time

    by Wayne Schmidt ...
    "Really!? A railroad through the bottom of the Grand Canyon?" Crazy idea, right? But in fact, it came closer to happening than most people realize.This is the little-known story of how hubris killed the railroad's president and saved the world's most beloved canyon. Frank Mason Brown drowned in a whirlpool in the Grand Canyon because he was sure he could build a great railroad through its depths ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to Washington

    The Evergreen State

    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

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  • A Window to Heaven

    The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak

    by Patrick Dean ...
    The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck—an Episcopal priest—and his team's history-making summit of Denali.In 1913, four men made a months-long journey by dog sled to the base of the tallest mountain in North America. Several groups had already tried but failed to reach the top of a mountain whose size—occupying 120 square miles of the earth’s surface —and position as the Earth’s ... Read more

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    The Cowboy State

    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

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  • The Long Journeys Home

    The Repatriations of Henry 'Opukaha'ia and Albert Afraid of Hawk

    The moving stories of two Indigenous men in the United States and the return of their remains to their homelands.Henry 'Opkaha'ia (ca. 1792–1818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–1900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut have striking similarities. p kaha ia was ... Read more

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    By the mid-1800s, people began to venture west, traveling up to 2000 miles in search of new lives. Fur trappers and traders had explored these trails before, but now entire families packed their belongings into covered wagons for the long journey. This primary source reader integrates social studies content and literacy, and introduces students to some of California's early settlers including John ... Read more

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