LEADER 04102nam 22006615 450 001 9910452229703321 005 20210421192821.0 010 $a9786611722739 010 $a1-281-72273-1 010 $a0-300-13386-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300133868 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472074 035 $a(EBL)3419838 035 $a(OCoLC)923587724 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270393 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270393 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261262 035 $a(PQKB)10322179 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419838 035 $a(DE-B1597)485036 035 $a(OCoLC)1024042802 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300133868 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472074 100 $a20200424h20082008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Western Paradox $eA Conservation Reader /$fBernard DeVoto; Patricia Nelson Limerick, Douglas Brinkley 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (583 p.) 225 0 $aThe Lamar Series in Western History 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-08422-6 311 $a0-300-08423-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tIntroduction --$tThe West: A Plundered Province --$tThe Anxious West --$tThe West Against Itself --$tSacred Cows and Public Lands --$tStatesmen on the Lam --$tTwo-Gun Desmond Is Back --$tBillion Dollar Jackpot --$tThe Sturdy Corporate Homesteader --$tHeading for the Last Roundup --$tConservation: Down and on the Way Out --$tChapter 1. To the Traveler's Eye --$tChapter 2. Damnedest Country Under the Sun --$tChapter 3. Emptiness Can Affect the ary266 --$tChapter 4. Unregarded Inheritance from the Frontier --$tChapter 5. The Eighth City of Cibola --$tChapter 6. A Certain Mentality --$tChapter 7. Nemesis --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $a"This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy. 410 0$aYale Western Americana series (Unnumbered) 606 $aConservation of natural resources$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aPublic lands$zWest (U.S.) 607 $aWest (U.S.) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConservation of natural resources 615 0$aPublic lands 676 $a333.7/2/0978 700 $aDeVoto$b Bernard$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01031694 702 $aBrinkley$b Douglas$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aLimerick$b Patricia Nelson$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452229703321 996 $aThe Western Paradox$92449175 997 $aUNINA