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Preface=xi
Acknowledgments=xv
Prologue=1
1. "Parks Americana"=3
2. The Nature of Parks=14
3. The States Begin to Stir
State Park Initiatives in the Nineteenth Century=27
4. The Momentum Builds
State Parks Expansion in the Earl Twentieth Century=48
5. Coalescence
The First National Conference on Parks=74
6. "A State Park Every Hundred Miles"
The National Conference on State Parks Goes to Work=90
7. Dubious Progress
Assessing the Relevance of the National Conference on State Parks=111
8. An Unexpected Boon
Economic Recovery and a New Deal for State Parks=124
9. Recovery and Beyond
Depression-Era Initiatives Look to the Future=141
10. A Major Interruption
Wartime Distraction and Postwar Rebound=155
11. The Continuing Search for Direction
The Ever-Resilient National Conference on State Parks=169
12. A New Era of Federal-State Cooperation=182
13. Signs of Maturity=201
14. A Look behind the Scenes
Issues and Influences that Shape the State Park System=220
15. Anything Goes
An Age of Expansion, Experimentation, and Expediency=233
16. Looking to the Future
The View from One Observer's Soapbox=253
Appendix:Selected Data on America's State Parks=262
Selected Bibliography=267
Index=273