LEADER 04289nam 22008415 450 001 9910496136603321 005 20250604190135.0 010 $a9786612355028 010 $a9781282355026 010 $a1282355023 010 $a9780520918467 010 $a0520918460 010 $a9780585041124 010 $a0585041121 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520918467 035 $a(CKB)111004366713006 035 $a(EBL)470884 035 $a(OCoLC)609849994 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000365902 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12118935 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365902 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10414755 035 $a(PQKB)10030022 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12070206 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189503 035 $a(PQKB)11281602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470884 035 $a(DE-B1597)520004 035 $a(OCoLC)990413464 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520918467 035 $a(Perlego)552060 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366713006 100 $a20200424h19951995 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSlide Mountain $eor, the folly of owning nature /$fTheodore Steinberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1995] 210 4$dİ1995 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a9780520207097 311 0 $a0520207092 311 0 $a9780520087637 311 0 $a0520087631 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-203) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tSLIDE MOUNTAIN --$tFast Fish in America: An Introduction --$t1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies --$t2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country --$t3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water --$t4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County --$t5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York --$tPaper Moon: A Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere-from suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor. Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonstrates in this compelling, witty look at Americans' attempts to master the environment, nature continually turns these efforts into folly. In a rich, narrative style recalling the work of John McPhee, Steinberg tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. Beginning along the Missouri River, Steinberg recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. Then he travels to Louisiana, where an army of lawyers butted heads over whether Six Mile Lake was actually a lake or a stream. He continues to Arizona to investigate who owned the underground, then to Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains to see who claimed the clouds. He ends in crowded New York City with Donald Trump's struggle for air rights. Americans' obsession with owning nature was immortalized by Mark Twain in the tale of Slide Mountain, where a landslide-prone Nevada peak turned the American dream of real estate into dust. In relating these modern-day "Slide Mountain" stories, Steinberg illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner. 606 $aLand tenure 606 $aLand tenure$zUnited States 606 $aLand use 606 $aLand use$zUnited States 606 $aReal property 606 $aReal property$zUnited States 615 0$aLand tenure. 615 0$aLand tenure 615 0$aLand use. 615 0$aLand use 615 0$aReal property. 615 0$aReal property 676 $a333.3/0973 700 $aSteinberg$b Theodore$f1961-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01109544 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910496136603321 996 $aSlide Mountain$94384398 997 $aUNINA