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The Bears Ears : a human history of America's most endangered wilderness
- Title
- The Bears Ears : a human history of America's most endangered wilderness / David Roberts.
- Author
- Roberts, David, 1943-2021
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-6846 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by President Trump in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened by oil and gas drilling, unrestricted grazing, and invasion by jeep and ATV, is at the center of the greatest environmental battle in America since the damming of the Colorado River to create Lake Powell in the 1950s. In The Bears Ears, acclaimed adventure writer David Roberts takes readers on a tour of his favorite place on earth as he unfolds the rich and contradictory human history of the 1.35 million acres of the Bears Ears domain. Weaving personal memoir with archival research, Roberts sings the praises of the outback he's explored for the last twenty-five years"--
- Alternative Title
- Human history of America's most endangered wilderness
- Subjects
- Roberts, David, 1943-
- Cliff-dwellings
- Sacred space
- Utah
- Travel writing
- History
- First Nations
- Utah > San Juan County
- Utah > Bears Ears National Monument
- Travel
- Indians of North America > Antiquities
- HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- San Juan County (Utah) > Description and travel
- Roberts, David, 1943- > Travel > Utah
- Cliff-dwellings > Utah > San Juan County
- Sacred space > Utah > San Juan County
- Indians of North America > Utah > San Juan County > Antiquities
- Bears Ears National Monument (Utah) > History
- Genre/Form
- Travel writing.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-308) and index.
- Contents
- The place and the promise -- In search of a lost race -- Manuelito's dirge -- Shumway's shovel -- O Pioneers! -- Cowboys and characters -- Posey's trail -- Countdown to showdown -- Epilogue: The Bears Ears I'll never know.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6846
- ISBN
- 9781324004813
- 1324004819
- LCCN
- 2020042614
- 40030431456
- OCLC
- 1156996805
- Author
- Roberts, David, 1943-2021, author.
- Title
- The Bears Ears : a human history of America's most endangered wilderness / David Roberts.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-308) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030431456
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6846