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Cable Risdon
Ken Burns’s latest documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, will air on PBS in six
parts starting in September. A book with coproducer Dayton Duncan will be published at the same time.
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Yosemite Valley, with El Capitan
at left. "The story of the parks is the
story of people," says Ken Burns.
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Library of Congress/Prints and Photographs Division
Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir, two early champions of the parks, in Yosemite, 1903.
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Grand Canyon National Park Museum Collection
In 1892, Buffalo Bill Cody (second from right) and company survey the land at Grand Canyon National Park, 1892.
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Grand Canyon
National Park
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(Peabody) Denver Public Library/Weatern History Collection; (Young) Harpers Ferry Center/Historic Photo Collection
Lucy Peabody and Charles Young, two of the many "unknown" figures who labored diligently on behalf of our parks.
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Harpers Ferry Center/Historic Photo Collection
Roosevelt and companions wheel through
Yosemite’s Wawona Tunnel Tree, 1903.
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Wonder Lake at Denali National Park, with Mount McKinley in the distance.
