ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how place attachment is constructed in cultural group identity through ideas and meanings associated with environmental perception of national parks in the United States. Focusing on a case study of pioneer river guides in Grand Teton National Park, this chapter reveals how oral histories, archival research, and cultural landscape evaluation can advance our understanding of how place attachment develops. This chapter offers a set of methods for studying place attachment in national parks and provides an innovative study of pioneer river guides who have worked on the Upper Snake River from the 1950s to the present.
