Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Mark Daniel Barringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. viii, 238. $29.95.

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In this well written book, Mark Barringer provides an interesting and detailed history of commercial enterprises in Yellowstone National Park. The book has great value to scholars concerned with the management of public lands, the roles that interest groups (park employees, concessioners, tourists, and environmentalists) have played in the history of Yellowstone, and the difficulties in designing contracts for the private provision of goods and services on public lands.