Westward in Eden / William K Wyant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyant, William K., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 p.) : frontisp.

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PROLOGUE: FROM SEATO SEA

1. The Public Lands

2. Land Grabbers, the Law, and the Prophets

3. Congress Guards the Land

4. The Fall of Albert B. Fall

5. The Federal Sentinels

6. Winnowing the Laws

7. The Bowels of the Earth

8. Pennsylvania, Texas, and Big Oil

9. Tidelands and the Outer Shelf

10. The Public's Coal, Natural Gas, and Oil Shale

11. Fallen Timber

12. Come Blow Your Horn

13. To Have and to Hold

14. A Pilgrim's Progress

15. Oil, Ice, and Politics

16. Carving the Last Melon

Epilogue: Looking to the Future

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520329096

0520329090

OCLC:

1202624727