Yellowstone: The World's First National Park
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What's the Point of National Parks?
This was the first time that anyone had really articulated that scientific knowledge was important enough to sustain and to support. It was also part of a much longer argument that americans had been making in debates against scientists in england and in fran, about the relative age and exceptionalism of the north American continent. And once white explorers began to really find all these amazing spaces in the rocky mountain west, these became part of that rhetoric That the united states was nature's nation.
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