New Guardians for the Golden Gate: How America Got a Great National Park.
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07
Publication Title: California History
Format: Online
Company: University of California Press
Author: Engbeck, Joseph, H., Jr.

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NEW GUARDIANS FOR THE GOLDEN GATE: How AMERICA GOT A GREAT NATIONAL PARK

By Amy Meyer with Randolph Delehanty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 390 pp., $29.95 cloth)

Many years ago I walked through the Presidio of San Francisco and out along the bluffs above the Golden Gate as far as Land's End. The Presidio still belonged to the U.S. Army, and part of the area was privately owned. But the walk was a grand experience because the area was, as it still is, truly spectacular....



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