| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite. By Harvey Meyerson. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xvi, 318 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-1121-5.)

The established canon of national park histories lauds a handful of high-minded preservationists including John Muir, Robert Marshall, and Aldo Leopold, among others, for defending undeveloped wilderness and defining the national park idea in the United States. Harvey Meyerson seeks to recover historical memory and redress that established canon by recounting the role of United States Army officers in protecting Yosemite National Park. In presenting a detailed history of the "Old Army" of nineteenth-century westward expansion and how it came to administer the park during its first twenty-five years, Nature's Army traces the origins of preservation and national park policy to the unique environmental ethic embraced by West Point–trained U.S. Cavalry officers. . . .

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