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American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was atop a mountain when he heard the news: an assassin’s bullet would likely take President McKinley’s life, and make Roosevelt president.

Upon his inauguration shortly thereafter, Roosevelt brought his lifelong love of the natural world to the White House. With a stroke of his executive pen, he set aside vast swaths of land as preserves and monuments. And later, with an election looming, he embarked on the most comprehensive tour of America’s natural wonders any president had ever made, visiting the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and taking “the most important camping trip in history” with John Muir in Yosemite.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
0:05.6	download the app today.
0:08.0	This is a special encore presentation of our series on America's National Parks, as many
0:13.1	of us return to traveling, but remain mindful of social distancing.
0:16.7	Our national park system is experiencing record attendance, but many visitors may be unaware
0:21.9	of the turbulent and sometimes controversial histories behind such natural wonders as
0:26.6	Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon.
0:29.7	In this series, we'll meet the naturalists, politicians, and eccentric who fought to preserve
0:34.6	the most beautiful and unblemished corners of our country, and we'll also meet the
0:38.4	indigenous peoples and early settlers who sometimes fought back.
0:43.6	Imagine it's 1.25 pm, Friday the 13th, 1901.
0:58.3	You and some friends are on a climbing expedition in the Adirondacks.
1:02.3	You've just descended 500 feet from the top of Mount Marcy, the highest peak in New York.
1:07.6	Your party leader organized this trip.
1:10.0	His family has joined too, but when you all awoke this morning, the thick drizzle convinced
1:14.2	his wife to bring their children to a lower point on the mountain.
1:17.7	What your leader wished to push on, and so at 9 a.m., you and several other friends joined
1:22.8	him on the climb.
1:23.8	It took 3 hours to reach the summit, where they'd offered a spectacular view.
1:28.9	As you made your way back down, you all agreed that the lake on the mountain's southwest slope,
1:33.6	the locals call it Tear of the Clouds, was a prime spot to enjoy, a light lunch of sardines
1:38.5	and heart attack.
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