Book ID: CBB370794172

Guadalupe Mountains National Park: an environmental history of the Southwest borderlands (2019)

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Jeffrey P. Shepherd (Author)


University of Massachusetts Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 227
Language: English

The Guadalupe Mountains stand nearly 9,000 feet tall, spanning the far western fringe of Texas, the border of New Mexico, and the meeting point of the Southern Plains and Chihuahuan Desert. Long an iconic landmark of the Trans-Pecos region, the Guadalupe Mountains have played a critical role for the people in this beautiful corner of the Southwest borderlands. In the late 1960s, the area was finally designated a national park. Drawing upon published sources, oral histories, and previously unused archival documents, Jeffrey P. Shepherd situates the Guadalupe Mountains and the national park in the context of epic tales of Spanish exploration, westward expansion, Native survival, immigrant settlement, the conservation movement, early tourism, and regional economic development. As Americans cope with climate change, polarized political rhetoric, and suburban sprawl, public spaces such as Guadalupe Mountains National Park remind us about our ties to nature and our historical relationships with the environment. (Publisher)

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Authors & Contributors
Busch, Andrew M.
Feifei Zhou
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Dearen, Patrick
Colwell, Mary
Deger, Jennifer
Concepts
Environmental history
Ecology
Nature
National parks and reserves
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Environmental sciences
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Early modern
Modern
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Texas (U.S.)
Brazos River (Tex.)
Eurasia
Pecos River
Iguaçu Falls (Argentina and Brazil)
Institutions
Grampians National Park
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