04027nam 2200661Ia 450 991082268790332120200520144314.097866117227391-281-72273-10-300-13386-310.12987/9780300133868(CKB)1000000000472074(EBL)3419838(OCoLC)923587724(SSID)ssj0000270393(PQKBManifestationID)11954654(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270393(PQKBWorkID)10261262(PQKB)10322179(DE-B1597)485036(OCoLC)1024042802(DE-B1597)9780300133868(MiAaPQ)EBC3419838(EXLCZ)99100000000047207420001114d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Western paradox a conservation reader /Bernard DeVoto ; edited by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Nelson Limerick ; with a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20011 online resource (583 p.)Yale Western AmericanaDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-08422-6 0-300-08423-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Foreword --Introduction --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 --Chapter 1. To the Traveler's Eye --Chapter 2. Damnedest Country Under the Sun --Chapter 3. Emptiness Can Affect the ary266 --Chapter 4. Unregarded Inheritance from the Frontier --Chapter 5. The Eighth City of Cibola --Chapter 6. A Certain Mentality --Chapter 7. Nemesis --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --Acknowledgments --Index"This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy.Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)Conservation of natural resourcesWest (U.S.)Public landsWest (U.S.)West (U.S.)Conservation of natural resourcesPublic lands333.7/2/0978De Voto Bernard Augustine1897-1955.174370Brinkley Douglas538917Limerick Patricia Nelson1951-1011796MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822687903321The Western paradox4190664UNINA