Special Issue Articles

U.S. Parks and Protected Areas: Origins, Meanings and Management
Lary Dilsaver & Terence Young, Guest Editors

Inventing Yosemite Valley: National Parks and the Language of Preservation
Yves Figueiredo

Cape Hatteras: Birth of the National Seashore
Langdon Smith

The Beach versus “Blade Runner”: Recasting Los Angeles’ relationship to modernity
Ron Davidson

Defining Uncle Sam’s Playgrounds: Railroad Advertising and the National Parks, 1917-1941
Peter Blodgett

Why Lewis and Clark Matter: History, Landscape and Regional Identity
Cindy Ott

Integrating Preservation and Development at Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin, 1915-1940
Karl Byrand

The Strange Career of a Florida State Park: Uncovering a Jim Crow Past
William O'Brien

A Water Wilderness: Battles over Values and Motorboats on Yellowstone Lake
Michael J. Yochim

Research Articles

Risk and Behavioral Regional Investment: A Case Study of Speculation in the Nineteenth-century Oil Industry of Pennsylvania
Richard G. Healey

Rapid Settlement Diffusion: The Development of the Semi-Peripheral Region North of San Francisco, California, 1850- 1880
Samuel Otterstrom

Book Reviews