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05/08/2011

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Who wrote MARKS OF HUMAN PASSAGE?
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Wallace Stegner
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Who wrote SHOULD CARS BE ALLOWED IN YOSIMITE?
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James Bryce
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Who wrote A SECOND WORLD?
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Bayard Taylor
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Who wrote THE HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES?
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Mark Twain
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Who wrote A FOOTLOOSE IN DEMOCRACY
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Bernard DeVoto
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Who wrote WESTERN EXPANSION ACROSS WIDE MISSOURI?
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Bernard DeVoto
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Who wrote A CHRISTMAS CAROL?
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Charles Dickens
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Who wrote FACTORIES IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS?
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Charles Dickens
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Who wrote NATURE?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who wrote KTAADN IN THE MAINE WOODS?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Who was a member of Parliament?
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James Bryce
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Who compared Vesuvius to a Hawaiian volcano called Kilauea?
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Mark Twain
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True or False: Mark Twain thought Vesuvius was insignificant?
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True
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True or False: Mark Twain went barefoot at nighttime
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True
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Who joined in on a fight for the Dam of Echo Park?
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Wallace Stegner
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Who is friends with Bernard De Voto according to Harmon?
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Wallace Stegner
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Who wrote a biography about Bernard De Voto and Powell?
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Wallace Stegner
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What was THE MARKS OF HUMAN PASSAGE about?
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It was about Powell going down the Colorado River.
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True or False: Critics only gave Bayard Taylor credit for filling expectations of his mid 19th century readers, he only pleased the readers with the SECOND WORLD
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True
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Who is associated with the Valley of Humiliation, Great Relief, Gothic Gallery, and Mammoth Cave?
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Bayard Taylor
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Who was involved with Echo Park in the 1950's?
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Bernard DeVoto
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Who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 with WESTERN EXPANSION ACROSS WIDE MISSOURI?
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Bernard DeVoto
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"Aesthetics, one may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one was felt it is left untouched."
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Bernard DeVoto
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In his book, FACTORIES IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS, Charles Dickens was impressed with ...
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the women factory workers and their poetry.
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In his book A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens ...
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criticized society.
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True or False: Charles Dickens asked readers to compare HAUNTS OF DESPERATE MISERY to FACTORIES IN LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS.
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True
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Lowell will haunt in desperate misery
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"According to Jackson, accurately measured altitude of Ktaadn is 5300 ft. or a little more than a mile above level of the sea ... highest point in the state of Maine."
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Henry David Thoreau
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Fact: Dinosaur National Monument is associated with all the rivers (and not Great Salt Lake)
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Who found dinosaurs for the Carnegie Museum?
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Earl Douglas
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Who made the area with the fossils a national park so he could protect his diggings from the souvenir hunters?
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Earl Douglas
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True or False: According to Harmon, Echo Park marked the coming of age of the conservation movement. (and not Ecology)
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True
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Harmon stopped where he did because of ...
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Echo Park
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Who painted KINDRED SPIRITS?
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Asher B. Durand (1894)
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Who are the two people in the painting KINDRED SPIRITS by Asher B. Duran?
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Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant
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Where is KINDRED SPIRITS a location of?
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Kaaterskill Cove in the Catskills of New York
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Who is the painting THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS by?
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Albert Bierstadt
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Where and how much was the painting THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS sold for?
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Sold at the Sanitation Commission Auction in NYC for $25,000 to help fund the commission.
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Who painted the COURSE OF EMPIRE series?
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Thomas Cole
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List the paintings in Thomas Cole's series COURSE OF EMPIRE. (1834-1836)
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1. The Savage State
2. The Pastoral (Acadian) State
3. Consummation of Empire
4. Destruction
5. Desolation
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What plant was found by John Bartram and painted by William Bartram?
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Franklinia Altamaha
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Who started the Hudson River School of Painting?
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Thomas Cole
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True or False: In 1820, 9/10 paintings were landscape paintings?
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False
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Fact. In 1820, 1/10 paintings were landscape paintings. In 1880, 9/10 paintings were landscape paintings.
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Who went up the Hudson River and came back with 3 landscape paintings, all of which were immediately sold?
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Thomas Cole
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"How can you buy the sky, how can you own the rain and the wind?"
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Chief Seattle
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"This we know all things are connected ... web of life ..."
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Chief Seattle
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"We love this Earth as the newborn loves his mother's heartbeat."
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Chief Seattle
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Who was in disbelief that Americans could acquire land?
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Chief Seattle
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Who was the first nature born artist naturalist from the new world?
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William Bartram
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What plant did Ben Franklin bring back to Philadelphia?
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Franklinia Altamaha
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Who wrote TRAVELS, the first international bestseller?
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William Bartram
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Who came all the way to port Hudson and found petrified cypress?
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William Bartram
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Who created an Indian Paintings gallery and saw the loss of native people as a problem?
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George Catlin
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What happened to George Catlin's Indian Paintings gallery?
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Catlin moved it to Europe and had success at first but then ended up going bankrupt.
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Who wrote LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIANS?
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George Catlin
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Who was born in Dunbar, Scotland, and went to school at the University of Wisconsin?
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John Muir
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Who was given credit for national parks?
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Catlin
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Who was a transcendentalist?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Who got Gila National Forest started in New Mexico
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Leopold
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"All forests should be owned by all people."
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Bob Marshall
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What was signed by Woodrow Wilson in 1913?
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Rakera Act
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Who was a painter of the Grand Canyon?
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Thomas Moran
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Who got the Wilderness Act through Congress?
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Howard Zahniser
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Who wrote MIRROR OF AMERICA?
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David Harmon
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What was MIRROR OF AMERICA about?
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Echo Canyon and the damn that was supposed to be built there.
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Which author did a series of addresses on national parks?
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James Bryce
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"In wilderness is the preservation of the world."
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Henry David Thoreau
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Who wrote from the easy chair in Harper's magazine?
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Bernard DeVoto
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Who is the Natural Bridge in Virginia associated with?
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Thomas Jefferson
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True or False: Section 15 of the township and range was set aside for public education.
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False. It was section 16.
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We have two survey systems in Louisiana, the township and range system and the ______________.
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French long lock system
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Henry David Thoreau graduated from what university?
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Harvard
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Who did something with the Holy Cross?
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William Henry Jackson; photographer
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Who wrote letters and notes on the manners, customs and conditions of American ways in 1841?
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Catlin
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The forest service is located in what department?
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Department of Agriculture
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True or False: Sections 8, 11, 26, and 29 were set aside for future government use.
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True
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Which of the following green lands is under the control of the national park service?
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Recreation Refugee
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How much was paid for the Louisiana Purchase?
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$15 million
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What country did we get the Louisiana Purchase from?
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France
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What was the name of the first museum?
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Museum of Modern Art in NYC
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What was the Sierra Club's first book titled?
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"THIS IS DINOSAUR"
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Who wrote the SAND COUNTY ALMANAC?
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Aldo Leopold
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"One may lack words to express the impact of beauty, but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizen."
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Bernard DeVoto
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What 3 prominent figures formed The Wilderness Society?
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Aldo Leopold, Howard Zahniser, and Bob Marshall
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