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Sagebrush empire : how a remote Utah county became the battlefront of American public lands / Jonathan P. Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Jonathan P. (Journalist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural landowners--Utah--San Juan County.
- Rural landowners.
- Public lands--Utah--San Juan County.
- Public lands.
- Environmentalism--Utah--San Juan County.
- Environmentalism.
- Rural conditions.
- San Juan County (Utah)--History.
- San Juan County (Utah).
- Utah--Rural conditions.
- Utah.
- Utah--San Juan County.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 364 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Torrey House Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : Torrey House Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- San Juan County, Utah, contains some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world, rich in natural wonders and Indigenous culture and history. But it's also long been plagued with racism, bitterness, and politics as twisted as the beckoning canyons. In 2017, en route to the Valley of the Gods with his spouse, a Colorado man closed the gate on a corral. Two weeks later, the couple was facing felony charges. Award-winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson places the case in its fraught historical context and--alongside personal stories from a life shaped by slickrock and sagebrush--shows why this corner of the western United States has been at the center of the American public lands wars for over a century. -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: One. Gategate
- Two. State Line
- Three. Potsherd Purloiner
- Four. Bears Ears Genesis
- Five. Shash Jaa Sanctuary
- Six. Blizzard at Moon House
- Seven. Sagebrush Rebellion Roots
- Eight. J. A. Scorup: Proto-Sagebrush Rebel
- Nine. Yellow Monster
- Ten. Aneth Oil
- Eleven. The Three Rs and the First Sagebrush Rebellion
- Twelve. F&[ ̂]%$#ll Canyon
- Thirteen. Wise Use?
- Fourteen. Backlash
- Fifteen. Recapture
- Sixteen. The River
- Seventeen. Bears Ears: Beginnings
- Eighteen. A New Monument, A New Battle
- Nineteen. The Disaster Known as Trump
- Twenty. Sagebrush Site
- Twenty-One. The Tourism Quandary
- Twenty-Two. Gategategate.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781948814447
- 1948814447
- OCLC:
- 1227271854
- Publisher Number:
- 99988356658
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