Abstract State parks are an understudied feature of United States cultural landscapes. This article documents the early development of Montana state parks and explores evolving heritage production at Bannack State Park between 1900 and the present. Bannack heritage evolved in six phases, each with a different set of actors, mechanisms, and funding sources. Prior to Bannack’s acquisition as a state park, heritage production relied on local mechanisms and actors, including storytelling and commemorative events by civic groups. Local advocacy and fundraising allowed the creation of Bannack State Park, heralding shifts towards state-directed heritage production, heavily reliant on ebbs and flows of funding from state and federal sources. Increased state and federal funding permitted consolidated visions of state-directed heritage that demonstrate processes of symbolic accretion. Decreased funding drove formal public-private partnerships and more dispersed processes of heritage production. This research demonstrates how North American regional park systems are bound into the construction of place-based heritage.

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蒙大拿州立公园遗产地不断变化

摘要 州立公园是美国文化景观的一个未被充分研究的特征。本文记录了蒙大拿州立公园的早期发展，并探讨了 1900 年至今班纳克州立公园不断发展的遗产生产。Bannack 遗产分六个阶段演变，每个阶段都有不同的参与者、机制和资金来源。在班纳克被收购为州立公园之前，遗产制作依赖于当地机制和演员，包括民间团体的讲故事和纪念活动。当地的宣传和筹款促成了班纳克州立公园的建立，预示着转向国家指导的遗产生产，严重依赖来自州和联邦来源的资金潮起潮落。增加的州和联邦资金允许国家指导的遗产的统一愿景，展示象征性的增长过程。资金减少推动了正式的公私伙伴关系和更分散的遗产制作过程。这项研究展示了北美区域公园系统如何与地方遗产的建设联系在一起。