The National Park idea and the Preservation Movement
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Romanticism
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Primitivism
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Nationalism
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The vanishing American frontier
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George Catlin
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Upper Missouri River Basin
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Buffalo Country
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Fort Pierre
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Profligate waste
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Specimens
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"A Nation's Park"
Three major things that ties into this preservation movement:
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Romanticism, primitivism, nationalism
Romanticism
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Idea involving wilderness that nature is actually beautiful and not blemishes on the
landscape
Feeling evolved in Europe
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Concept where people become involved with nature
Primitivism
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Believed that human beings that lived closer to nature were better off than those who
live in civilizations
People are already too civilized
Nationalism
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Early romantics and transcendentalists were emulating from Europe
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Americans has wild land and wild nature as compared to Europe
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Wilderness nature viewed to be national asset
People feel pride and nationalism in the US
The Vanishing American Frontier
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Occurred throughout 19th century
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People believed that settlement development was good
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More civilizations than more of nature
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- Fall '08
- Staff
- Native Americans in the United States, Yellowstone National Park, Missouri River Basin
