Item Detail
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30686
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English
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Getting Along: The Significance of Cooperation in the Development of Zion National Park
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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68
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4
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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313-331
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"From the clashes of today over environmental issues relating to national parks and monuments, it would be easy to gain a distorted perspective on the historical attitudes among southern Utahns toward the creation and protection of Utah's scenic wonders that are today a part of the national parks and monuments system. Indeed, intense debate on and hostility toward the creation of national parks and monuments have not always been the order of the day in southern Utah. To the contrary, the historical record indicates that the setting aside of Zion National Park in 1919 and its early development actually resulted from cooperative efforts by residents of southern Utah communities; administrators in the National Park Service; corporate leaders of the Union Pacific and Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroads; conservationists; leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church); and government officials, including Utah's congressional delegation led by Senator Reed Smoot."
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