Mark David Spence
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195142433
- eISBN:
- 9780199848812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195142433.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, which fulfilled preservationists' long-held dreams for a strong federal commitment to the preservation and enhancement of all ...
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This chapter discusses the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, which fulfilled preservationists' long-held dreams for a strong federal commitment to the preservation and enhancement of all national parks. However, the creation of the National Park Service only perpetuated the same struggle between preservationists and development interests that plagued the management of Yosemite in the 1880s. Like those earlier debates before the California State Assembly, this struggle would also carry over to the new agency's relationship with the Yosemite Indians. In the same year that the park service was established, Yosemite officials and concessionaires inaugurated the Indian Field Days, a festivity designed to “revive and maintain the interest of Indians in their own games and industries, particularly basketry and bead work.”Less
This chapter discusses the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, which fulfilled preservationists' long-held dreams for a strong federal commitment to the preservation and enhancement of all national parks. However, the creation of the National Park Service only perpetuated the same struggle between preservationists and development interests that plagued the management of Yosemite in the 1880s. Like those earlier debates before the California State Assembly, this struggle would also carry over to the new agency's relationship with the Yosemite Indians. In the same year that the park service was established, Yosemite officials and concessionaires inaugurated the Indian Field Days, a festivity designed to “revive and maintain the interest of Indians in their own games and industries, particularly basketry and bead work.”
Joshua David Hawley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300120103
- eISBN:
- 9780300145144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300120103.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Political History
Despite a promising career in the New York State Assembly, Theodore Roosevelt left Albany and sought refuge on the banks of the Little Missouri in Dakota after suffering a personal tragedy and ...
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Despite a promising career in the New York State Assembly, Theodore Roosevelt left Albany and sought refuge on the banks of the Little Missouri in Dakota after suffering a personal tragedy and political disappointment. He announced his engagement to Alice Hathaway Lee on February 14, 1880, and voted against labor union-supported bills to increase the pay of policemen and firefighters in New York City in March 1882. Theodore's first child, a girl, was born on February 13, 1884 while the legislature was hours away from approving his bill that would strip the New York City aldermen of their power to confirm the mayor's appointments. The measure was his most promising bid to promote good government in New York. The following day, his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, and wife died. This chapter examines Roosevelt's conception of public virtue as private morality, his understanding of urban politics, and his view of race. It also looks at Roosevelt's romantic warrior mentality and how he folded it into neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory to create a personal code of conduct.Less
Despite a promising career in the New York State Assembly, Theodore Roosevelt left Albany and sought refuge on the banks of the Little Missouri in Dakota after suffering a personal tragedy and political disappointment. He announced his engagement to Alice Hathaway Lee on February 14, 1880, and voted against labor union-supported bills to increase the pay of policemen and firefighters in New York City in March 1882. Theodore's first child, a girl, was born on February 13, 1884 while the legislature was hours away from approving his bill that would strip the New York City aldermen of their power to confirm the mayor's appointments. The measure was his most promising bid to promote good government in New York. The following day, his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, and wife died. This chapter examines Roosevelt's conception of public virtue as private morality, his understanding of urban politics, and his view of race. It also looks at Roosevelt's romantic warrior mentality and how he folded it into neo-Lamarckian evolutionary theory to create a personal code of conduct.
