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Yosemite with Emerson before his death, judged humans on nature's terms
Definition
John Muir
Term

The Show Heard Roud the World

composed "Concord Hymn"

judged nature on human's terms

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Term

Philadelphia (Reflected Distinction)

"It was a city whose culture was a fixed quantity, whose society was filled to teh brim, and which therefore, was consanguie, serene, and seated.... the perfect setting for history."

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Henry James
Term
Wyoming and Ywllostone; soaping a geyser, The Lake HOtel (Old Yellowstone Days). Classmate was Teddy Roosevelt, wrote short stories for the Lampoon and had an opera produced before graduation. Intentions of becoming a composer; however, father wanted him to get a respectable job. Therefore, Wister went to Wyoming for a change in scene after his health started to diminish. Also wrote the Virginian.
Definition
Owen Wister
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Gettysburg- first time Congress used its power to acquire private land for a public park. Lincoln was the world's foremost spokesman of popular government, saying that democracy was yet worth fighting for (The Gettysburg Address). "Great national historic sites should be preserved because they are meant to sesrve the citizenry."
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Abraham Lincoln
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Encouragement to womenreaders, trip to the Rocky Mountains, Howard Eaton headed the trip through Glacier Park, little animal life in teh Rocky Mountain range (Ride the Rockies and Save your Soul). She wrote humorous yet mysterious novels, such as "had-I-but-known" school for writing. Took national park courses each year and said that national parks are places of self-discovery for everyone!
Definition
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Imaginable freaks visiting Yellowstone, Mammoth Hot Springs, Grand Canyon (On Tour through the Yellowstone). Young, wrote tales of India, later collected as teh Railway Series, From Sea to Sea- three chapters describing his account of Yellowstone.
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Rudyard Kipling
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friend of Muir, Burroughs' Medal, journey to the great SW (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona), Grand Canyon (Divine Abyss). Wonderful nature writer
Definition
John Burroughs
Term
after visiting the Grand Canyon, began writing of Yosemite Valley, "The Cataracts" and "The Hetch-Hetchy", (Two Poems)
Definition
Harriet Monroe
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one of the leaders of teh Chicago Renaissance, also a poet like MOnroe, his home named Connemara (Blue Ridge in the northern distance). "Many Hats", Scrapers of the Deep Wind). Published "Good Morning America"
Definition
Carl Sandburg
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journeyed throughout Arizona: Yosemite, then the Grand Canyon, etc. (Gulping the Great West). "Great Parks Trip", died with pneumonia or influenza before he could finish his story of his trip to the West
Definition
Thomas Wolfe
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painter of American Indian life, journalist also, first person to envision the concept of a national park (A Nation's Park)
Definition
George Catlin
Term

June 30, 1864

President LIncoln signed an order which is thought to be the start of the American national parks movement, CA and Yosemite National Park and Mariposa Valley. However, Yellowstone was the first national park created on March 1, 1872 (Preservation for All)

Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
Term
Muskrats in Tinker Ridge in Blue Ridge Province. Muskrate are "the bread and butter of the food chain"
Definition
Annie Dillard
Term
"A Sand COunty Almanac: Good Oak: February"- "... faith can move mountains..."Rest cries the chief sawyer, and we pause for breath." "My oak leans, groans, and crashes with earth-shaking thunder, to lie prostrate across the emigrant road that gave it birth." "These things I ponder as teh kettle sings, and the good oak bums to red coal on white ashes. Those ashes, come spring, I will return to the orchard at the foot of the sandhill."
Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term
Atchafalaya-New York- rfers to ways how to control the Mississippi River, coonasses, Cajun country, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Old River, the Corps, towboats down the Mississippi River, Rabalais...
Definition
John McPhee
Term
able to conceive a world where being human did not mean being superior to all other living things, or even being unique. He was Krutch's benchmark in differing modern anture writing to that of Classical and or Romantic feeling for nature. He was unprecedented in that he could imagine anultimate democracy- did not have to answer to anyone unlike today's National Park Services
Definition
Henry David Thoreau
Term
after Thoreau dies, John Muir begins taking solitary journeys to Yosemite
Definition
Thoreau being his favorite writer
Term
"wild advertisement, gas, bunkum, blow, anything you please beyond the bounds of commonsense"
Definition
Rudyard Kipling
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Which person did Mary Rinehart ride through the Rockies with?
Definition
Howard Eaton
Term
Old Yellowstone Days written in 1936 by?
Definition
Owen Wister
Term
Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Mariposa Grant in the state of California?
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
Term
April 19, 1775
Definition
Concord Hymn
Term
What celebrates The Show Heard Round the World, Minute Men, and the Rude Bridge Across the Flood?
Definition
Concord Hymn
Term
What did Muir call Emerson?
Definition
sequoia
Term
Which month is the Good oak represented in?
Definition
February
Term
Who wrote "A Nation's Park"?
Definition
George Catlin
Term
David Harmon stated in the preface that two authors could be called nature writers
Definition
John Muir and John Burroughs
Term
talks in slow roll that could get him a job in a movie, hair looks as though a hari or comb would never have invited him to nature, has a yard which is a showcase of natural succession
Definition
John McPhee described your instructor
Term
What is Owen Wister noted for writing?
Definition
The Virginian
Term
Frequently used free verse
Definition
Carl Sandburg
Term
had the idea of national parks
Definition
George Catlin
Term
Who wrote "Galloping the Great West"?
Definition
Thomas Wolfe
Term
"These things I ponder as teh kettle sings..."
Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term
"When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved..."
Definition
Annie Dillard
Term
"It is quite to go down the Canyon...mule..."
Definition
John Burroughs
Term
"The main duty with which the Commissioner should be charged...this peculiarity exists wholly in its scence."
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
Term
"It is for us the living to be dedicated to the unfinished work..."
Definition
Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address)
Term
"But we were not to be discouraged...there is always satidfaction in giong to the bottom of things."
Definition
John Burroughs
Term
"Cities call I have heard them but they are no voice in all the world so consistent to me than the call of the Rockies."
Definition
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Term
"I would ask no other monument to my memory...than the reputation of having been the founder of such an institution."
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
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"Now we are engaged in the Great Civil are...so conceived and so dedicated..."
Definition
Abraham Lincoln
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"The duty of preservation... because the millions hereafter can benefit from the act have the largest interest..."
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
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t/f

A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province.

Definition
true
Term
Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain
Definition
physographic province
Term
Baton Rouge is in the ______ Embayment or _____ plain.
Definition

Mississippi River

Alluvial

Term
April 19, 1775
Definition
Minute Man National Histroic Park
Term
1864
Definition
Yosemite
Term
March 1, 1872
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
1869
Definition
Grand Canyon
Term
Colorado Plateau
Definition
Grand Canyon
Term
Judge Cornelius Hedges
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
Lee Ferry
Definition
Grand Canyon
Term
William Henry Jackson
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
Ferdinand Hayden
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
Paul Revere
Definition
Minute Man
Term
Frederick Law Olmstead
Definition
Yosemite
Term
Sierra Nevada
Definition
Yosemite
Term
New England
Definition
Minute Man
Term
North Bridge
Definition
Minute Man
Term
Abraham Lincoln
Definition
Yosemite
Term
Minute man Statue
Definition
Minute Man
Term
Thomas Moran
Definition
Yellowstone
Term
Major John Wesley Powell
Definition
Grand Canyon
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Rocky Mountain physiographic province is divided into __ sections. The shaded section was Middle Rockies.
Definition
4
Term
Which scale shows the most area?
Definition
1:250,000
Term
The ____ are located north of the Sierra Nevada province.
Definition
Cascades
Term
Shaded region is the ____ Province.
Definition
Piedmont
Term
Map projection that is relatively good in showing landmasses at near the same size.
Definition
Goode's Interrupted Projection
Term
This type of projection was first published in 1569
Definition
Mercator Projection
Term
drains internally
Definition
Basin and Range
Term
hillocks, hachures, and contour lines all show _____.
Definition
relief
Term
First scenic reserve created by federal action
Definition
Yosemite
Term
What was protected by the New York State Constitution
Definition
adirondacks
Term
Forester who worked on Biltmore Estate, worked for T. Roosevelt
Definition
Gifford Pinchot
Term
Which of the following cities not located on the Fall line
Definition
Mobile, AL
Term
American society of civil engineers listed 7 wonders of teh U.S. Which was not on the list?
Definition
Washington Monument
Term
Major John Wesley Powell recommended how much land could support a family on livestock
Definition
2,560 acres or 4 sections
Term
The founder of landscape architecture
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Frederick Law Olmstead
Term
Set aside land for public protection
Definition
Antiquities Act
Term

t/f

Ferde Grofe wrote Symphony No. 9 in the New World

Definition

false

Ferde Grofe wrote "Grand Canyon Suite"

Paul Winters wrote "Canyon" and "River Run"

Term

t/f

80 acres with water was needed to support a family through stock raising

Definition
false
Term
Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Painted Desert
Definition
Colorado Plateau
Term
Red Wood, Port Lovos
Definition
Pacific Border
Term
Mono Lake, Salt Lake, Death Valley
Definition
Basin and range
Term
Harper's Ferry, Biltmore Estate
Definition
Blue Ridge
Term
Stone Mountain, Charlottesville, University of VA
Definition
Piedmont
Term
Cape hattaras, Atchafalaya
Definition
Coastal Plain
Term
Minute Man, Boston, Vermont
Definition
New England
Term

true/false

Fioli Garden was built by the commissioner. Located on or near the San Andreas Fault

Definition
true
Term
"These things I ponder as the kettle sings, and teh good oak burns to read coals on white ashes. Those ashes, come spring, I will return to the orchard at the foot of the sandhill."
Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term

Minute Man National Historic Park with Paul Revere

April 19, 1775

Definition
"Concord Hymn"
Term
"Why should this place lead to such great distort landmarks, events that happened there..."
Definition
Henry james regarding Philadelphia
Term
What else was Owen Wister noted for other than the pieve we read in the book?
Definition
The Virginian
Term
Harmon stated in the Preface that only two of the authors represented in the Mirror of America could be called nature writers
Definition

John Burroughs

John Muir

Term
Which author frequently uses free verse as poetry?
Definition
Carl Sandburg
Term
Which author is given credit for having the idea of national parks?
Definition
George Catlin
Term
a painter who painted Native Americans and some fo the Western landscape scenes; noble savage. Was fearful that the Indians and the buffalo were getting pushed off the continent. He wasnted a place where both could survive
Definition
George Catlin
Term
Mary Roberts RInehard wrote about travel through the Rocky Mountains, in this story, she talks about the wrangler that was leading her through the Rockies
Definition
Howard Eaton
Term
Owen Wister recalls what Yellowsone was like in the early years
Definition
Ole Yellowstone Days
Term
Who headed the commission overseeing the Yosemite Mariposa Grant and designed how to manage the park, how to design the park, wrote a report that got lost
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead
Term

date of battle of Lexington and Concord

The Shot Heard Round the World

Minute Men that stood up

Definition
April 19,1775
Term
Muis is taking Emerson through Yosemite to see the Mariposa Grove and sequoias. During that encounter, he honors Emerson by comparing him to a sequoia because both were up in years, both majestic, both outstnading representatives of their community
Definition
John Muir and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Term
Good Oak represented in February
Definition
Sand County Almanac
Term
Where do you find Leopold's Sand Counties?
Definition
Wisconsin, Central Lowlands Province
Term
Who wrote "The Great West"
Definition
Thomas Wolfe
Term
"When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved so I could face downstream comfortably. I had a good look at him: 8 inches long in body and another 6 in the tail."
Definition
Annie Dillard
Term
"It is quite worth going down in the Canyon only falling in love with the...when he is ing good behavior a mule"
Definition
John BUrroughs-trying to defend a position of hiking in the canyons, because his friend John Muir always wanted to go up things but never down. in part of his argument, he got Muir to go with him to go down the Canyon and see how nice the mules were in doing that. = John Burroughs Award
Term
The main duty with which the commission should be charged...of people to benefit by that which... in which caused Congress to treat it differently than other parks... peculiarity exisits wholly in its scence
Definition
Olmstead about Yosemite
Term
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so bobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave here their last full measure of devotion"
Definition
Gettysburg address- Ab Lincoln who signed into law the state of CA for getting Yosemite
Term
"I would ask no other monument to my memory or any other enrollment of my name... than the reputation of being the founder of such an institution. Now we are gather in such a Civil Wat...can long endure. the duty of preservation falls...because the millions here after can benefit from teh acts...have the largest interest which should be the first and most friendliest garden."
Definition
Frederick Law Olmstead on Commission Report
Term
"Cities call I have heard them but there is no voice so consistent to me as teh wordless call of the Rockies. I shall go back."
Definition
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Term
"And to think that this show- place has been going on all these days an none of we ever saw it"
Definition
Kipling
Term

found the Sierra Club

set land aside for the Antiquities Act

Definition
John Muir
Term
Who wanted to go up the Gand Canyon?
Definition
John Muir
Term
Wister traveled West to write his damous novel which was?
Definition
The Virginian
Term
Who is the main character in Ride the Rockies and Save your Soul?
Definition
Rinehart
Term
Who used free verse?
Definition
Carl Sandberg
Term
Author of Chicago Literary Renaissance?
Definition
Carl Sandberg
Term
Who published poetry magazine, magazine verses?
Definition
Harriet Monroe
Term
Who wrote Gulping the Great West?
Definition
Thomas Wolfe
Term
First national park acquired through the use of taking land by government
Definition
Gettysburg National Park
Term
Who was the author of Mirror of America?
Definition
David Harmon
Term
Henry james wrote about what?
Definition
Philadelphia
Term
"Those ashes come spring..."
Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term
"Prarie clovers, great scab of bark from roadside..."
Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term
"The particular oak...sand hill...diameter of 30 inches..."
Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term
"These things I ponder..."
Definition
Aldo Leopold
Term
sandhill
Definition
Leopold
Term

"Muskrat went under the bridge..."

"I have larned that the only way to approach a feeding muskrat for a good look is to commit myself to a procedure so ridiculous that only a total unselfconsciousness will permit me to live with myself"

Definition
Annie Dillard
Term

"Stalking is a game played in teh actual present"

 

"Muskrats outwit me every time"

Definition
Annie Dillard
Term
"But we were not to be dissuaded or ridiculed out of the adventur. There is always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things"
Definition
John Burrows
Term
author- The Shot heart round the world
Definition
Emerson
Term
Author of Chicago Literary Renassance?
Definition
Carl Sandburg
Term
Why should Philadelphia have so many historic events?
Definition
Henry james believed it was supreme in culture and society compared to other cities
Term
Gettysburg Nation Park
Definition
Harmon
Term

True/false

 Virginian written in 1902 is a western novel

Definition
true
Term
Published a magazine with Sandburg's face in it?
Definition
Harriet Monroe
Term
Who published poetry magazine, magazine verses?
Definition
Harriet Monroe
Term
Who wrote Gulpin the Great West?
Definition
Thomas Wolfe
Term
First national pak acquired through the use of taking land by government
Definition
Gettysburg National park
Term
Who was the author of Mirror of America?
Definition
David Harmon
Term
author- reflected distinction
Definition
henry james
Term

author of-

Old Yellowstone days

the virginian

Definition
owen wister
Term
author-The gettysburg address
Definition
lincoln
Term

author-

ride the rockies and save you soul

Definition
mary rinehart
Term
author- on tour through the yellowstone
Definition
kipling
Term
author- divine abyss
Definition
john burroughs
Term
author- two yosemite poems
Definition
harriet monroe
Term
author- scrapers of the deep winds
Definition
carl sandberg
Term
author- gulping the great west
Definition
thomas wolfe
Term
author- a nation's park
Definition
george catlin
Term
author- preservation for all
Definition
olmstead
Term
author- shoudl cars be allowed in yosemite?
Definition
james bryce
Term
author- the factories of lowell
Definition
charles dickens
Term
author- a second world
Definition
bayard taylor
Term
author- the hawaii volvanoes
Definition
mark twain
Term
author- the marks of human passage
Definition
wallace steggner
Term
author- footlosse in democracy
Definition
bernard devoto
Term
author- pilgrim at tinker creek
Definition
annie dillard
Term
author-the atchafalaya
Definition
john mcfee
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