Rewilding the West : Restoration in a Prairie Landscape / Richard Manning; ed. by Richard Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Richard, Author.

Contributor:

Manning, Richard, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.) : 2 line illustrations, 2 maps

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command, begins Richard Manning's vivid, anecdotally driven account of the American plains from native occupation through the unraveling of the American enterprise to today. As he tells the story of this once rich, now mostly empty landscape, Manning also describes a grand vision for ecological restoration, currently being set in motion, that would establish a prairie preserve larger than Yellowstone National Park, flush with wild bison, elk, bears, and wolves. Taking us to an isolated stretch of central Montana along the upper Missouri River, Manning peels back the layers of history and discovers how key elements of the American story-conservation, the New Deal, progressivism, the yeoman myth, and the idea of private property-have collided with and shaped this incomparable landscape. An account of great loss, Rewilding the West also holds out the promise of resurrection-but rather than remake the plains once again, Manning proposes that we now find the wisdom to let the prairies remake us.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ONE Vision

TWO Aboriginal Sins

THREE Property Was Theft

FOUR Face It to Live

FIVE All Hell Needs

SIX Nothing Came Up That Year

SEVEN Paving the Road to Hell

EIGHT The Unwild West

NINE Conservations Contradiction

TEN A Learned Legacy

ELEVEN A Beginning

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520943179

OCLC:

1408681341