Wilderness in national parks : playground or preserve / John C. Miles.

Introduction
Wilderness and the origins of National Parks
Wilderness and the new agency
Wilderness becomes an Issue for the Park Service
Preservation of the primeval in the Post-Mather Era
More ferment and expansion
From the war to Director Wirth
The drive for a wilderness act
A hesitant start at implementation
Wilderness reviews reluctantly completed
Wilderness in Alaska
A new sort of National Park wilderness
Park wilderness after the reviews
The work continues
Epilogue.