Windshield Wilderness ─ Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington's National Parks

"What Windshield Wilderness has to say about the changing role of automobiles in the twentieth-century American experience of wild nature will be of interest to anyone who cares not just about the three parks whose histories it explores-Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades-but parks and wild places all across the nation."- From The Foreword By William Cronon

"In this compelling book, David Louter takes a seeming oxymoron -a windshield wilderness, a wild area seen from a car on an expensive and carefully engineered road-and uses it as an avenue for understanding the evolution of national parks."-Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University

"David Louter's Windshield Wilderness considerably advances our understanding of the relationship between the coming of modernity in the shape of the automobile and the idea of wilderness. Gracefully crafted and exquisitely argued, it is a marvelous addition to the literature of Western, environmental, and national park history."-Hal Rothman, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Nevada At Las Vegas

"David Louter is the beginning of a new generation of national park historians. His lively style draws me from page to page."-John Reynolds, Former Deputy Director, National Park Service

David Louter is a historian with the National Park Service in Seattle, Washington.