Megan Kate Nelson is een schrijver en historicus wiens werk de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog en de geschiedenis van het Amerikaanse Westen belicht. Ze verweeft meesterlijk de verhalen van de Unie, de Confederatie en inheemse volkeren, en onthult de ingewikkelde manieren waarop deze conflicten de Amerikaanse cultuur hebben gevormd. Nelsons wetenschap wordt gekenmerkt door diepgaand historisch onderzoek en haar inzet om genuanceerde perspectieven aan een breed publiek te presenteren.
A narrative of adventure and exploration, Saving Yellowstone is also a story of Indigenous resistance, the expansive reach of railroad, photographic, and publishing technologies, and the struggles of Black southerners to bring racial terrorists to justice. It reveals how the early 1870s were a turning point in the nation's history, as white Americans ultimately abandoned the the higher ideal of equality for all people, creating a much more fragile and divided United States"--.
Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park -- one of the most popular of all national parks -- but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led a team of scientists through a narrow canyon into Yellowstone Basin, entering one of the last unmapped places in the country. The survey's discoveries led to the passage of the Yellowstone Act in 1872, which created the first national park in the world.
"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher