Imagining the big open : nature, identity, and play in the new West / edited by Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, Thomas J. Harvey ; with a foreword by Dan Flores.

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Other Authors: Nicholas, Liza, 1964-, Bapis, Elaine M., 1949-, Harvey, Thomas J., 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Regional unifier or social catspaw? A social and cultural historical geography of salmon recovery / Joseph E. Taylor III
  • "Way out west...ghost towns, gray wolves, territorial prisons & more!": celebrating the wolf in the new west / Karen Jones
  • Narratives of place and power: laying claim to Devils Tower / Wendy Rex-Atzet
  • Patagonia, Gary Snyder, and the "magic" of wilderness / Michael Lundblad
  • Urban climbers in the wilderness: Mounts Hood, Rainier, and Shasta and the history of popular mountaineering / Gordon Sayre
  • Fishing the hatch: new west romanticism and fly-fishing in the high country / Ken Owens
  • Reinventing Red Lodge: the making of a new western landscape, 1884-2000 / Meredith Wiltsie and William Wyckoff
  • Yellowcake to Singletrack: culture, community, and identity in Moab, Utah / Michael A. Amundson
  • From "last of the old west" to first of the new west: tourism and transformation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming / Lawrence Culver
  • Buffalo chips or computer chips? the battle over the future of the Great Plains / Amanda Rees
  • Reno's silver legacy: gambling on the past in the urban new west / Alicia Barber
  • Contesting Boot Hill: the saga of metaphorical Dodge City / Robert R. Dykstra and Jo Ann Manfra
  • Scripting the west: Robert Redford's persona and film / Elaine M. Bapis
  • 1-800-SUNDANCE: identity, nature, and play in the west / Liza Nicholas
  • The Sundance Kid and Sundance: the west as nature / Thomas J. Harvey.