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Book Review
| Crater Lake National Park: A History. By Rick Harmon. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000. 280 pp. Illustrations, plates, maps, bibliography, index. Paper $19.95.
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| Written to commemorate the centennial of Crater Lake National Park in 2002, Crater Lake National Park: A History presents a chronological history of the park. Beginning with introductory chapters on the geological origins and Euro-American "discovery" of the area, the book focuses predominantly on the development and management of Crater Lake as a national park. In providing a chronicle of the people, events, and issues that shaped Crater Lake over the past one hundred years and in charting what he calls the park's "failed destiny"(p. 3), historian Rick Harmon seeks to provide a historical legitimization for a future policy of "conscientious preservation" (p. 240). |
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