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Title

Red Desert : history of a place / edited by Annie Proulx ; photographs by Martin Stupich.

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Proulx, Annie.
• Stupich, Martin.

Description

x, 400 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.); 23 x 25 cm.

Summary

An analysis and interpretation of the natural and human history of the Red Desert.

Subject

• Union Pacific Railroad Company
• Natural history > Wyoming > Red Desert (Desert)
• Chinese Americans > History
• Japanese Americans > History
• Shoshoni Indians > History
• Red Desert (Wyo. : Desert) > History
• West (U.S.) > Ethnic relations

Note

• 10 of the 38 essays are by Annie Proulx.
• With 9 maps and 8 tables.
• Issued in light brown cloth boards with color printed dust jacket bearing color photographs of the Red Desert on front and back.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 377-400).

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Contents

Photographs -- Text -- Geology of the Red Desert / Charles Ferguson -- Water in the Red / Craig Thompson -- Environmental change in the Wyoming Basin's Red Desert / Dudley Gardner -- Titanotheres, time, and people: a snapshot of Red Desert paleontology / Tom Rea -- Vertebrate wildlife of the Red Desert / Gary P. Beauvais -- Birds of the Red Desert / Andrea Orabona -- Horses come to the Red Desert / Dudley Gardner -- Insects of the Red Desert: an exercise in scientific humility / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- Sagebrush / George P. Jones -- Bright green hues are rare: plant diversity and conservation in Wyoming's Red Desert / Walter Fertig and Laura Fertig -- Biological (cryptobiotic) soil crusts of the Red Desert / Jack States -- Human history -- Early people of the Red Desert / Dudley Gardner -- The Shoshonis and westward-bound emigrants / Dudley Gardner -- An anthropological impression of rock art in the Greater Red Desert / Russel L. Tanner -- Traversing the desert / Annie Proulx -- Forts of the Red Desert / Annie Proulx -- Forts Bridger and camps Stambaugh and Pilot Butte / Dudley Gardner -- Forts Halleck and Fred Steele / Annie Proulx -- The Union Pacific Railroad arrives / Annie Proulx -- The Union Pacific, the Chinese, and the Japanese / Dudley Gardner -- Inhabitants of the margins / Annie Proulx -- The Little Snake River Valley / Annie Proulx -- Red Desert ranches / Annie Proulx -- Horse bands of the Red Desert / Annie Proulx -- Opening the oyster / Annie Proulx -- Red Desert outlaws / Annie Proulx -- History of conservation efforts in the Red Desert / Mac Blewer.

Call Number

Berg Coll Proulx R43 2008

ISBN

• 9780292714205 (alk. paper)
• 0292714203 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008011077

OCLC

213408565

Title

Red Desert : history of a place / edited by Annie Proulx ; photographs by Martin Stupich.

Imprint

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 377-400).

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy formerly owned by Annie Proulx and acquired with her archive in 2009.

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Added Author

Proulx, Annie.

Stupich, Martin. Photographer

Proulx, Annie. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Proulx R43 2008