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In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and reshaped one small stretch of North America, from the last ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and the latest controversies over climate change. Large-scale historical approaches continue to make monumental contributions to our understanding of the past, Andrews writes, but they are incapable of revealing everything...

From Mount Achonee to Mount Ypsilon with hundreds of peaks, passes, lakes, and streams in between, Colorado historians Louisa Ward Arps and Elinor Eppich Kingery enthusiastically recorded the history of over 600 place names in Rocky Mountain National Park and the adjacent areas around Grand Lake and the Indian Peaks. In their inimitable style, Arps and Kingery included the personal anecdotes and interesting tidbits that make this book not only a valuable...

"On September 4, 1915, hundreds of people gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to celebrate the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. This new nature preserve held the promise of peace, solitude, and rapture that many city dwellers craved. As Jerry Frank demonstrates, however, the park is much more than a lovely place. Rocky Mountain National Park was a keystone in broader efforts to create the National Park Service, and its history tells us a great...