| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Yellowstone: The Creation and Selling of an American Landscape, 1870–1903. By Chris J. Magoc. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xviii, 266 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8263-2119-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8263-2120-8.)

Chris J. Magoc's Yellowstone examines the crucial early history of America's most important national park. Magoc's thesis is that Yellowstone's creation was less a gesture of environmental restraint than an act of commodification consonant with the economic and cultural ethos of the industrial era. He supports that thesis with close and creative readings of a variety of sources and events—from the photography of Frank Haynes and early guidebook literature to debates over park improvement and the presence of Indians and wildlife. . . .

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