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George Dillard
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History, Climate, Education. Looking Through the Past newsletter at https://worldhistory.substack.com/. Other writing at https://worldhistory.medium.com/. #coys
Sir, how could you not know what you got an MRI for?

It does not seem difficult...
November 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This week, a look at the very American merger of art, nature, and commerce that boosted the national parks (and the railroads that delivered people to them). worldhistory.substack.com/p/wonderland...
Wonderland, Incorporated
Marketing the national parks
worldhistory.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Advertising, that’s what!
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
They haven't looked great so far, even in winning, but the level of complaining about a new coach 10 games into his tenure comes across as whiny and entitled, IMO.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
So what was it like for the people who lived in these “wildernesses,” what happened to them, and what evidence is left of their lives?
worldhistory.substack.com/p/only-to-th...
Only to the White Man Was Nature a Wilderness
Native Americans in the national parks
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November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This week, a look at the photos and turbulent life of a man who shaped the way the world saw the nature of the West. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Best General View of Yosemite
How Carleton Watkins' photography shaped ideas of the West
substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In the 1860s, he and his companions lugged 2,000 pounds of camera equipment into the Yosemite Valley in California. The photos he took led to the establishment of the national parks.
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM