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A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone, the World's First National Park
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Product Description The summer of 1871, a team of thirty-two men set out on the first scientific expedition across Yellowstone. Through uncharted territory, some of the day’s most renowned scientists and artists explored, sampled, sketched, and photographed the region’s breathtaking wondersfrom its white-capped mountain vistas and thundering falls to its burping mud pots and cauldrons of molten magma. At the end of their adventure, the survey packed up their specimens and boarded trains headed east, determined to convince Congress that the country needed to preserve the land from commercial development. They returned with stories of wonder hardly short of fairy tales,” to quote the New York Times. With the support of conservationists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Law Olmsted, and John Muir, the importance of a national park was secured. On March 1, 1872, Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone Park Bill into law. It set aside over two million acres of one-of-a-kind wilderness as a great national park for the benefit and enjoyment of people.” This important and fascinating book will introduce young adults to the astonishing adventure that led to the best idea America ever had.” Today over 130 countries have copied the Yellowstone model, and billions of acres of critical habitat and spectacular scenery are being preserved for all of us to enjoy. This book has a wonderful ecological and historical message for readers ages 12 and up. No book about Yellowstone's founding has been written for this age group before, yet Yellowstone National Park is a major destination for many families, so many readers will likely have heard of Yellowstone or even have visited there. This is a great book for any school library or for history or science classrooms in middle and high school, where information can be used for research projects. From School Library Journal Gr 7 Up-Peabody tells the story of one of the first scientific expeditions into the vast Western wilderness surrounding the Yellowstone River. In 1871, Ferdinand Hayden led an expedition of geologists, naturalists, artists, photographers, soldiers, and adventurers into a remote corner of what was then the Montana Territory. The expedition's documentation of the fantastic natural wonders found there ultimately culminated in the passage of the Yellowstone Park Bill, which protected the wilderness from business interests that sought to exploit it and created America's first national park. Peabody does a fine job of conveying the awe-inspiring aspects of Yellowstone without resorting to clichéd descriptions, and her explanations of the science behind the wonders of the wilderness are easy to understand without being overly simplistic. Peabody's narrative is thin in regard to her treatment of native peoples in the Yellowstone region. However, since the purpose of her text is to relate the history and legacy of the expedition, her focus on the reports of the expedition members makes narrative sense. The carefully selected and well-organized photographs, maps, and other illustrations draw the eye and keep the copious text from becoming dry or tedious. VERDICT This excellent title is recommended for any collection in need of quality creative nonfiction in the area of natural history.-Kelly Kingrey-Edwards, Blinn Junior College, Brenham, TXα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. Review "This book, with lively writing, great research, and wonderful photographs, maps, and other graphics, deserves a much wider readership than its intended audience, and should find a place in libraries and classrooms everywhere." San Francisco Book Review "If Peabody's impassioned, vividly written chronicle of how Yellowstone became a national park does not make readers want to visit, nothing will....The dramatic, picturesque descriptions of the expedition read very much like an adventure
