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THE CAMPING TRIP THAT CHANGED AMERICA: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JOHN MUIR, AND OUR NATIONAL PARKS

Camping Trip That Changed America
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Rosenstock
Author's First Name: 
Barb
Illustrator's First Name: 
Mordecai
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Gerstein
Publisher: 
Dial
Publication Date: 
2012

After reading John Muir’s book about vanishing forests, Teddy Roosevelt asked Muir to take him camping in Yosemite. Their splendid trip prompted the president to advocate laws saving the wilderness. Pen and watercolor wash exclaim the wideness and wildness found out west.