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Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Paul S. Sutter, William Cronon is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In its infancy, the movement to protect wilderness areas in the United States was motivated less by perceived threats from industrial and agricultural activities than by concern over the impacts of automobile owners seeking recreational opportunities in wild areas. Countless commercial and government purveyors vigorously promoted the mystique of travel to breathtakingly scenic places, and roads and highways were built to facilitate such travel. By the early 1930s, New Deal public works programs
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- Author
- Paul S. Sutter, William Cronon
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780295982199
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Agriculture, Economics, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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