{"id":2522,"date":"2024-01-28T20:40:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=2522"},"modified":"2024-01-28T20:40:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T20:40:56","slug":"megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Kate Nelson &#8211; Saving Yellowstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writer and historian Megan Kate Nelson discussed her book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Saving-Yellowstone\/Megan-Kate-Nelson\/9781982141349\">Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Scribner, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 13 June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park\u2014one of the most popular of all national parks\u2014but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led a team of scientists through a narrow canyon into Yellowstone Basin, entering one of the last unmapped places in the country. The survey\u2019s discoveries led to the passage of the Yellowstone Act in 1872, which created the first national park in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, author Megan Kate Nelson examines the larger context of this American moment, illuminating Hayden\u2019s survey as a national project meant to give Americans a sense of achievement and unity in the wake of a destructive civil war.&nbsp;<em>Saving Yellowstone<\/em>&nbsp;follows Hayden and two other protagonists in pursuit of their own agendas: Sitting Bull, a Lakota leader who asserted his peoples\u2019 claim to their homelands, and financier Jay Cooke, who wanted to secure his national reputation by building the Northern Pacific Railroad through the Great Northwest. Hayden, Cooke, and Sitting Bull staked their claims to Yellowstone at a critical moment in Reconstruction, when the Grant Administration and the 42nd Congress were testing the reach and the purpose of federal power across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A narrative of adventure and exploration,&nbsp;<em>Saving Yellowstone<\/em>&nbsp;is also a story of Indigenous resistance, the expansive reach of railroad, photographic, and publishing technologies, and the struggles of Black southerners to bring racial terrorists to justice. It reveals how the early 1870s were a turning point in the nation\u2019s history, as white Americans ultimately abandoned the higher ideal of equality for all people, creating a much more fragile and divided United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer and historian Megan Kate Nelson discussed her book\u00a0Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America\u00a0(Scribner, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2022-06-13-Nelson.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2022-06-13-Nelson_pod.jpg","cover_image_id":"2524","duration":"1:01:37","filesize":"48.96M","filesize_raw":"51341240","date_recorded":"2022-06-13","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"series":[16],"class_list":["post-2522","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","series-greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2022-06-13-Nelson_pod.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-download\/2522\/megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone","player_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2522\/megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone","audio_player":"<a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2522\/megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone\">https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2522\/megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone<\/a>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/id1664960759","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0TNTSCl3zRBues4Eqjkwwm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HIEVoSlQ24\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone\/\">Megan Kate Nelson &#8211; Saving Yellowstone<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/megan-kate-nelson-saving-yellowstone\/embed\/#?secret=HIEVoSlQ24\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Megan Kate Nelson &#8211; Saving Yellowstone&#8221; &#8212; The Greenhouse Book Talks\" data-secret=\"HIEVoSlQ24\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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