| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.2

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Book Review

Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Mark Daniel Barringer. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. vii + 238 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

American histories are filled with accounts of collusion between federal agencies and private enterprise, between the interests of the public and the ambitions of private capital. Mark Barringer's Selling Yellowstone provides a striking illustration of the way national park concessioners created, sustained, and persistently reshaped America's oldest park to meet the needs of profit. The demands of private capital, not altruism, were the most important factors in the creation of the National Parks System, according to the author. In the case of Yellowstone, commercial traffickers and park administrators packaged and marketed the park from its inception, hoping that its real and created landscapes would meet the public's perceived needs for experiences with nature. . . .

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