LSU LA 1203 Midterm Exam | Questions and Answers Which person did Mary Rinehart ride through the Rockies with? Howard Eaton Old Yellowstone Days was written in 1936 by _____? Owen Wister Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Mariposa Grant in the state of California? Fre...
Which person did Mary Rinehart ride through the Rockies with?
Howard Eaton
Old Yellowstone Days was written in 1936 by _____?
Owen Wister
Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Mariposa Grant
in the state of California?
Frederick Law Olmstead
Concord Hymn
April 19, 1775
What 3 things does the Concord Hymn celebrate?
1) The Shot Heard Round the World.
2) Minute Men
3) Rude Bridge Across the Flood
John Muir and Ralph waldo Emerson met in Yosemite. Muir called Emerson a ____ as
a sign of respect.
Sequoia
Which month is the Good Oak represented in?
February
Who wrote "A Nation's Park"?
George Caitlin
David Harmon stated in the preface that 2 authors could be called nature writers. Who
are the authors?
John Muir and John Burroughs
John McPhee described your instructor
talks in a slow roll that could get him a job in a movie, hair looks as though a hair or
comb would never have invited him to nature, has a yard which is a showcase of natural
succession.
Owen Wister is noted for writing ____ __________?
The Virginian
Frequently used free verse
Carl Sandburg
, Had the idea of National Parks
George Caitlin
Wrote "Galloping the Great West"
Thomas Wolfe
"These things I ponder as the kettle sings..."
Aldo Leopold
"When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved..."
Annie Dillard
"it is quite to go down to the Canyon ... mule..."
John Burroughs
"The main duty with which the Commissioner should be charged ... this peculiarity exists
wholly in its scene."
Frederick Law Olmstead
"It is for us to the living to be dedicated to the unfinished work..."
Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address)
"But we were not to be discouraged . . . there is always satisfaction in going to the
bottom of things."
John Burroughs
"I would ask no other monument to my memory . . . than the reputation of having been
the founder of such an institution."
George Caitlin
"Cities call I have heard them but they are no voice in all the world so consistent to me
than the call of the Rockies."
Mary Roberts Rinehart
"Now we are engaged in the Great Civil are...so conceived and so dedicated.."
Abraham Lincoln
"The duty of preservation...because the millions hereafter can benefit from the act have
the largest interest..."
Frederick Law Olmstead
True/False:
A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province
True
Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain
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