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This 4 page paper is a review about Mark Spence's book, Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks. No additional sources cited.
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rife with trees, streams, lakes, indigenous plants and calls of birds and other animals. In short, wilderness is considered pristine, natural land that doesnt have the taint of development in
any way, shape or form - there is not even a hiking path in the way to draw attention from the beauty. In fact, according to Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian
Removal and the Making of the National Parks by assistant professor Mark David Spence, the definition of wilderness found in the 1964 Wilderness Act is a place where "man himself
is a visitor who does not remain." Yet Spences book isnt a kudos to the U.S. government for finding these so-called pristine
and untouched lands and protecting them so tourists could continued to enjoy their unspoiled beauty and feel closer to nature. Far from it. Rather, the book is an honest expose
that accuses the government, since the 19th century, of "creating" wilderness areas, sometimes through the policy of Native American removal from these very same lands. Its safe to say that
the rise of the restrictive Indian reservations can almost go hand-in-hand with development of the National Parks Service system, which sought to support wildlife and nature by removal of all
traces of people from it. The book drips with interesting stories, case histories and fascinating tidbits about how Native American removal helped create the National Park Services wilderness areas. The
most famous of these removals involves the creation of the most famous of the parks; Yellowstone, Glacier and Yosemite. The cause for
the creation of wilderness, according to Spence, was the American romance with the frontier during the early 19th century. Leading the charge for "frontier preservation" was so-called "nature" painter George
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