The Origin of the National Park Service Idea: 1880 through 1910

General Resources:

Dilsaver, Lary M. America's National Park System: The Critical Documents. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/anps/.

Gillon, Steven M. and Matson, Cathy D. The American Experiement: A History of the United States, Volume II, 2nd Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006).

Mackintosh, Barry. The National Parks: Shaping the System, 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2005. http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/shaping/index.htm.

"The National Parks: America's Best Idea: History Overview." PBS. Last accessed November 20, 2012. http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/history.

Rettie, Dwight F. Our National Park System: Caring for America's Greatest Natural and Historic Treasures. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995. http://books.google.com/books/about/Our_National_Park_System.html?id=LaJ9FxhAHg0C.

1880-1910 time period:

Lee, Ronald F. "The Story of the Antiquities Act." National Park Service Archeology Program. Last modified September 13, 2007. http://www.nps.gov/archeology/pubs/Lee/index.htm.

Coyle, David Cushman. Conservation: An American Story of Conflict and Accomplishment (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1957, 66.

McManamon, Francis P., Teresa S. Moyer, Charlotte King, and Sophia Kelly. "Antiquities Act." National Park Service Archeology Program. Last modified September 12, 2007. http://www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/antiquities/index.htm.

McGee, WJ. Proceedings of a Conference of Governors (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909), 258.

"Mesa Verde National Park." National Park Service. Last modified November 9, 2012. http://www.nps.gov/meve/.

"Petrified Forest National Park." National Park Service. Last modified September 1, 2012. http://www.nps.gov/pefo/.

Schaub, Joan. "Conservation Pioneer, Charles C. Deam," Outdoor Indiana (1 November 1947): 6.

Smith, Duane A. Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2002. http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/smith/index.htm.