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PEAKS, POLITICS & PASSION:
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK COMES OF AGE

2 Nov 2014

By Robert W. Righter

Published by Grand Teton Association.
Jan Lynch, Executive Director, Grand Teton Association, Project Coordinator.
Printed in USA by Paragon Press, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Also available as an ebook from Grand Teton Association.

Highlights include:
▪ History of Grand Teton National Park from 1950 to present
▪ Includes full-color photographs by National Park Service, Thomas D. Mangelsen, Bonnie Sanders, Henry Holdsworth and from the collections of Jackson Hole Historical Society & Museum
▪ Maps locating historical homesteads and ranches
▪ 9 x 9.25 inches, 306 pages

ISBN 0-978-0-931895-95-1

"beautifully presented"

In this beautifully presented book, one of our country's eminent environmental historians tells the story of a great American achievement: the preservation of the Teton Mountains and their sagebrush plains and rivers. Robert Righter was exactly the right person for this assignment, for he is a careful, meticulous scholar who lives near this place and understands its natural values as well as the motivations of those who sought to save it for posterity. His work stands tall and elegant like the Tetons in national park history.

--Donald Worster author of A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

"deeply-researched"

In Crucible for Conservation Robert Righter elegantly chronicled the early history of Grand Teton National Park to 1950. Now, he has brought the story up to date with this new, deeply-researched book that examines the difficult and often vexing challenges in the decades since, including private land inholdings, historic preservation, fire and wildlife management, and the airport. Righter, one of our finest national park historians, richly illuminates the recent history of one of our superlative national parks. He has given us a gem and a classic.

--Mark Harvey, Professor of History, North Dakota State University

"informed and intimate"

Bob Righter's Peaks, Politics & Passion is a book only he could write. The park itself, won for the public after one of the most vicious ideological battles over the park idea in American history, has since 1950 become an iconic international symbol of America. But it is also Bob Righter's backyard. Give me an author any day who understands big history, knows policy detail, has a fair mind, and looks out the window at his subject over coffee every morning. That's rare in combination, and a book this informed and intimate is what comes from it.

Dan Flores, Author of The Natural West and Visions of the Big Sky

PEAKS, POLITICS & PASSION: GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK COMES OF AGE

"beautifully presented"

"deeply-researched"

"informed and intimate"

PEAKS, POLITICS & PASSION:
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK COMES OF AGE