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The Department of the Interior's connection to 'Dunes and Dreams' is through its overarching mission and its responsibility for National Parks. As the nation's principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior has basic responsibilities to protect and conserve land and water, energy and minerals, fish and wildlife, and parks and recreation areas [Passage 1]. The creation of 'Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument' falls under this mandate, as it is a historical account of a National Monument managed by the National Park Service, which is part of the Department of the Interior [Passage 1].
The book itself is identified as "Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument," authored by Michael Edward Welsh and published under the National Park Service, within the Department of the Interior's Intermountain Field Area, specifically the Intermountain Cultural Resource Center, Division of History [Passage 1]. The text further indicates that the National Park Service was involved in the designation and protection of White Sands National Monument [Passage 3], and discusses efforts to create a unit of the National Park Service at the dunes…
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← Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument ( 1995 ) by Michael Edward Welsh List of Illustrations → 16174 Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument 1995 Michael Edward Welsh INTERMOUNTAIN FIELD AREA INTERMOUNTAIN CULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER, DIVISION OF HISTORY Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument A non-free image has been removed from this page. ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE by Michael Welsh Intermountain Cultural Resource Center Professional Paper No. 55 page The cover photograph is…
or American Indian reservation communities and for the people who live in island territories under U. S. administration. page Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument Michael Welsh Intermountain Cultural Resource Center Professional Paper No. 55 Santa Fe, New Mexico 1995 page Table of Contents This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government ( see 17 U.S.C. 105 ). Public domain Public domain false false
← Foreword Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument by Michael Edward Welsh Chapter One: A Monument in Waiting: Environment and Ethnicity in the Tularosa Basin Chapter Two → 16172 Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument — Chapter One: A Monument in Waiting: Environment and Ethnicity in the Tularosa Basin Michael Edward Welsh Chapter One A Monument in Waiting: Environment and Ethnicity in the Tularosa Basin In August 1935, Carl P. Russell, chief of the eastern museum division of the National Park Service (NPS), published in the National Geographic…
← Acknowledgements Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument by Michael Edward Welsh Foreword by Dennis L. Ditmason Chapter 1 → 4554877 Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument — Foreword Dennis L. Ditmason Foreword "Why on earth would you want to go there, it's nothing but sand," my friends said when they called in response to the news of my assignment to White Sands National Monument, "you'll be bored silly in six months." Well that was six years ago and I'm still waiting for the break in the action. The Great White Sands as they were called by Tom…
← Chapter One Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument by Michael Edward Welsh Chapter Two: The Politics of Monument-Building: White Sands, 18981933 Chapter Three → 16314 Dunes and Dreams: A History of White Sands National Monument — Chapter Two: The Politics of Monument-Building: White Sands, 18981933 Michael Edward Welsh Chapter Two The Politics of Monument-Building: White Sands, 1898–1933 The ecological complexity of the White Sands region had its human counterpart in the protracted efforts of southern New Mexicans to create a unit of the National Park Service at the…
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- How does the designation of this work as 'public domain' due to its federal government origin impact its accessibility, use, and potential influence compared to a copyrighted historical text?
- Beyond simply thanking people, what deeper insights do the extensive acknowledgements provide about the research methodology, sources, and collaborative nature of writing an administrative history of a National Monument?
- Considering that this book is a 'Professional Paper No. 55' from the 'Intermountain Cultural Resource Center, Division of History' of the National Park Service, what can you infer about the intended audience, purpose, and scholarly rigor of the historical narrative that follows?
- The title is 'Dunes and Dreams.' Given the context of the author, publisher, and subject matter (White Sands National Monument), what initial questions or expectations does this title provoke about the historical narrative itself, and how might it hint at the types of stories or themes explored?