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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 D...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955
Autres auteurs: Brinkley, Douglas, Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2000.
Collection:Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)
Sujets:
Conservation of natural resources > West (U.S.)
Public lands > West (U.S.)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Conservation of natural resources.
Public lands.
Natuurbehoud.
Natuurlijke hulpbronnen.
West (U.S.)
West United States.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Select Harperâ€?sConservation 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
  • Chapter 1 To the Travelerâ€?s Eye
  • Chapter 2 Damnedest Country Under the Sun
  • Chapter 3 Emptiness Can Affect the Unwary
  • Chapter 4 Unregarded Inheritance from the FrontierChapter 5 The Eighth City of Cibola
  • Chapter 6 A Certain Mentality
  • Chapter 7 Nemesis
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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