wrote during the 1830s that Native Americans in the United States might be preserved "(by some great protecting policy of government) ... in a magnificent park ... A nation's Park, containing man and beast, in all the wild and freshness of their nature's beauty!"

First efforts: Hot Springs, Arkansas and Yosemite Valley

The first effort by the U.S. Federal government to set aside such protected lands was on 20 April 1832, when President Andrew Jackson

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