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54 Cards in this Set
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Who compiled Mirror of America?
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David Harmon
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Who wrote The Marks of Human Passage?
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Wallace Stagner
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Of whom was Wallace Stagner a friend?
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Bernard Devoto
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What did Bernard Devoto write?
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Footloose in Democracy
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Why did David Harmon end Mirror of America with The Marks of Human Passage and Footloose in Democracy?
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He felt that the controversy being voiced by environmental groups was becoming a political voice
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What is the controversy by which David Harmon was concerned?
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Dinosaur National Monument/Echo Park Colorado
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How did echo park get its name?
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When Powell stopped at the point where the Yampa River flows into the green, visitors noticed the echo from walls
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What problem did Echo Park encounter?
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People wanted to dam the Green River
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Who was the president of the Sierra Club at the time that the Echo Park/Dinosaur National Monument conflict arose?
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David Brower
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What did he see that caused his concern?
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The head of the Bureau of Reclamation was in favor of damming the river
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What did Brower say that the bureau calculated incorrectly?
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The surface area of the water that would be behind the dam
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What did the surface area of the water behind the dam affect?
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The amount of water to evaporate and subsequently the cost to benefit ratio
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What weakness did Brower project in the construction of the dam?
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The Rocks weren't strong enough to hold the damed water
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What was the ratio of letters against the damn to letters for the dam sent to congressmen?
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80 to 1
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What did Bernard De Voto do that made him an important character in the conflict?
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He wrote a regular column, "The Easy Chair," for Harper's Magazine
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How did De Voto's literary involvement make him important to the conflict?
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He got the passage, "The Marks of Human Passage," into Readers' Digest
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Who was friends with Bernard De Voto?
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Wallace Stegner
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What did Wallace Stegner write?
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The Marks of Human Passage
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Who wrote Hawaiian Volcanoes?
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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What two Volcanoes did Mark twain compare?
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Mount Kilauea and Mount Vesuvius
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How did Mark Twain compare the two volcanoes?
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He said Mount Vesuvius was child's play compared to Mount Kilauea
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What did Mark Twain do in Hawaii that was part of Fryling's Favorite Part in the book?
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He went "hot footing"
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How did Mark Twain know he was off of the trail?
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He felt sharp stones on the bottom of his feet which indicated they would be hot
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Who wrote "Should cars be Allowed in Yosemite?
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James Price MP
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Of what organization was James Price a member?
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British Parliament
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Why did James Price MP come to America?
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To see our National Parks-They're cool
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Charles Dickens, author of A Christmas Carol, wrote what that we read in class?
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Factories of Lowell
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On what town was A Christmas Carol based?
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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Why did Dickens come across the Atlantic to study the factories in Lowell?
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The ladies working in the factories who were once farm girls from around the state had enough time to gather and write poetry, which intrigued Dickens
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What generated the electricity that powered the factories in Lowell?
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A waterfall that was 20 feet high
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How did Dickens compare Lowell to other cities and towns in Massachusetts?
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He said Lowell was the high point
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Who wrote Nature?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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From what did Emerson start his book?
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His lecture to the chapter of Pi Beta Kappa at Harvard
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Who wrote Ktaadn in the Maine Woods?
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Henry David Thoreau
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True or Fals: Mark Twain Compared Mount Kilauea to Mount Vesuvius calling Vesuvius a Childs toy.
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True
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Which author was a member of a civic association?
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James Price
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Where are the Valley of Domain, Great Relief, and Gothic Valley found?
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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky- The Second World
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True or False: From a historic view of his writings critics only give AR Taylor credit for ... readings.
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True
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What did AR Taylor write?
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A Second World
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According to David Harmon, Echo Park became what in the conservation moving?
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A Political Force
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True or False: According to David Harmon, Echo Park was the first time Ecology was used in the conservation movement.
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False
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Dinosaur Park is associated with which of the following? Green and Yampa Rivers, Earl Douglass, Echo Canyon, Utah/Colorado Border?
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All
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Who worked for the Carnage Museum in Pittsburg getting bones from Dinosaur Park to demonstrate how big the Dinosaurs were?
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Earl Douglass
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True or False: Earl Douglass was the second person Carnege went to to get dinosaur bones.
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False-First
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What was Earl Douglass's Problem in extracting Dinosaur Bones from the Park?
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Other people were extracting the bones for souvenirs
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What was established by the government to solve Earl Douglass's problem in the Park?
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The Dinosaur National Monument
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Is the Great Salt Lake part of the Dinosaur National Monument?
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No
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Which of the following authors wrote a history of William Powell?: James Price, Bernard De Voto, Wallace Stagner
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Wallace Stagner
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Who wrote "Aesthetics. One who may lack the words to express the impact of beauty, no one who has felt it remains untouched, it is renewal enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve permanently in the inheritance of the American Citizen."
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Bernard De Voto
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"This is Dinosaur, Echo Park Country, and it's Magic Rivers" was the title of what book produced by who for what?
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The book to fight the Echo Park Controversy produced by the Sierra Club
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Of what did the fighting book of the Sierra Club consist?
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Beautiful photos of the Echo Park area and the words of Wallace Stegner
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What is the relationship between Wallace Stegner and Bernard De Voto?
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Friends
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Who wrote, "Jackson, who in his capacity as General Sureyer of the State, has accurately measured the altitude of KTAADN to 5300 feet (just over a mile above sea level) It is the highest point in the state of Maine, and it is the most abrupt granite mountain in New England"
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Henry David Thoreau
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In what year did who win a Pullitzer Prize for his masterful rendition of the Western Expansion across the wide Missouri?
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Bernard De Voto 1948
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