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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: "A Unique Masterpiece of Nature" xi Chapter 1. "A Prospect Truly Grand and Often Awfully Sublime": Exploring the White Mountains 1 Chapter 2. "The Emotion of the Sublime": Tourism and Art in the White Mountains 18 Chapter 3. "A Huge Museum of Curiosities": Franconia Notch, As Advertised 33 Chapter 4. "Saving the Switzerland of America": The White Mountains Conservation Movement 56 Chapter 5. "To Aid and Educate": Organizing the White Mountains Conservation Movement 76 Chapter 6. "Old Man of the Mountain Rallies His Friends": The Campaign to Save Franconia Notch, August 1923 to October 1927 99 Chapter 7. "The Old Man Belongs to the Nation": The Campaign to Save Franconia Notch, October 1927 to June 1928 116 Chapter 8. "Which Shall It Be?" Franconia Notch Preserved 139 Notes 165 Bibliography 193 Index 207
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Nature conservation -- New Hampshire -- Franconia Notch -- Citizen participation.
Franconia Notch State Park (N.H.) -- History.