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The Western paradox : a conservation reader
- Title
- The Western paradox : a conservation reader / Bernard DeVoto ; edited by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Nelson Limerick ; with a foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- Author
- De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001], ©2001.
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| Text | Request in advance | S932.W37 D4 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxx,552 pages; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Yale Western Americana
- Uniform Title
- Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 484-527) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- Introduction / Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Select Harper's Conservation Essays. The West: A Plundered Province. The Anxious West. The West Against Itself. Sacred Cows and Public Lands. Statesmen on the Lam. Two-Gun Desmond Is Back. Billion Dollar Jackpot. The Sturdy Corporate Homesteader. Heading for the Last Roundup. Conservation: Down and on the Way Out -- Western Paradox. Ch. 1. To the Traveler's Eye. Ch. 2. Damnedest Country Under the Sun. Ch. 3. Emptiness Can Affect the Unwary. Ch. 4. Unregarded Inheritance from the Frontier. Ch. 5. The Eighth City of Cibola. Ch. 6. A Certain Mentality. Ch. 7. Nemesis. Epilogue / Mark DeVoto.
- ISBN
- 0300084226
- 0300084234 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 00012507
- OCLC
- 228660635
- ocn228660635
- SCSB-4205798
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries