| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2

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Book Review

Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Mark Daniel Barringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. viii + 238 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index $29.95.

Just when you think that everything possible has been written about Yellowstone National Park, yet another book is published. Mark Barringer's Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature transforms what might seem a rather mundane subject into a fascinating narrative of commerce, culture, and nature. 1

As nature appreciation spread during the late nineteenth century, concessioners and park administrators packaged national parks as "quintessential natural places," making efforts to "shape the parks to fit collective ideas about how exactly natural landscapes should look" (p. 35). Harry W. Child created a family partnership that by 1909 acquired all interests in hotel concessions, forming the Yellowstone Park Hotel Company. Child hired architect Robert Reamer, who designed the distinctive Old Faithful Inn (1904), reflecting "a desire not to alter landscapes but to frame nature for visitors, to present it as they expected it to be" (p. 44). By 1916, Child was the main force behind the regimented style of touring Yellowstone. A new generation of tourists came seeking the Old West and the frontier spirit, and Child repackaged Yellowstone to fit these expectations. . . .

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