| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks. By David Louter. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. xviii, 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-295-98606-9.)

"When we visit national parks, we drive," writes David Louter at the beginning of Windshield Wilderness (p. 3). He thereby touches on an essential truth about two of the United States' principal contributions to civilization— its automobile culture and its national park system—and a reality that historians of either topic seldom acknowledge: that they grew up together during the twentieth century, and from the parks' standpoint the relationship was highly symbiotic. Using as case studies the three national parks of Washington State, Mount Rainier (founded 1899), Olympic (1938), and North Cascades (1968), and wisely extending his lessons throughout the national park system, Louter demonstrates how the relationship between roads and parks (and their "windshield wilderness") evolved along with changing national attitudes toward nature and wilderness.

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