TY - JOUR
AU - Miller, Char
AB - What Happened in the Rainier Grand's Lobby? A Question of Sources Char Miller One of the enduring narrative tensions that animates much of American environ­ mental historiography is the conflict between those who argue for the preservation of natural spaces and those who call for their conservation-and use. Made to stand as champions of these two apparently irreconcilable ideological positions are John Muir, one of the founders and first president of the Sierra Club, and Gifford Pin­ chot, who helped establish the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and served as its first chief. The older Muir initially befriended the younger Pinchot; they met in June 1893 in the New York City home of James and Mary Eno Pinchot, when Muir was fifty-five and Pinchot was thirty-one. Thereafter they maintained a lively correspondence, and when possible they hiked and camped amid some of the West's most spectacular landscapes. Their amiable relationship allegedly soured in the late 1890s due to sharpening differences in their perspectives on the human place in nature. These differences came to outweigh the benefits they had derived from their excursions into the wild.' No moment seems to have captured this rupture more 
TI - What Happened in the Rainier Grand's Lobby? A Question of Sources
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2567586
DA - 2000-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/what-happened-in-the-rainier-grand-s-lobby-a-question-of-sources-0XInHGAr5R
SP - 1709
EP - 1714
VL - 86
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -