| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks. By David Louter. Foreword by William Cronon. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xvii + 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, 22.95.)

In 1915, Congress approved the National Park Service Organic Act, officially establishing the National Park Service to promote and regulate public use of the nation's national parks. That same year saw the passage of the first national highway legislation to build a system of national roads and highways. As David Louter persuasively argues, there is no coincidence here. Automobiles, roads, and the ideal of wilderness promoted and preserved by the National Park Service are integrally connected. "One made it possible to appreciate the other" (p. 4).

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