The Western paradox : a conservation reader / Bernard DeVoto ; edited by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Nelson Limerick ; with a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955.

Contributor:

Brinkley, Douglas.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951-

Series:

Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)

Yale Western Americana

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation of natural resources--West (U.S.).

Conservation of natural resources.

Public lands--West (U.S.).

Public lands.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786611722739

1-281-72273-1

0-300-13386-3

OCLC:

923587724