DeVoto's West : history, conservation, and the public good / by Bernard DeVoto ; edited by Edward K. Muller.

Publisher's description: Social commentator and preeminent western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. By the time of his death in 1955, DeVoto had published criticism, history, and fiction. He had won both the Pulitzer and Bancrof...

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Main Author: De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955
Corporate Author: Center for American Places
Other Authors: Muller, Edward K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2005]
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500 |a "Published in association with the Center for American Places Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Staunton, Virginia." 
500 |a "DeVoto's West collects twenty-two of DeVoto's essays on the American West and conservation issues."--Introduction. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index. 
505 0 0 |g ONE :  |t DeVOTO'S WEST:  |t Footnote on the West  |g (1927) --  |t Fossil remnants of the frontier  |g (1935) --  |t The West : a plundered province  |g (1934) --  |t The anxious West  |g (1946) --  |t The high country  |g (1952) -- TWO :  |t THE WESTERN LAND GRAB, 1940s:  |t The West against itself  |g (1947) --  |t The western land grab  |g (1947) --  |t U.S. Forest Service and the western land grab  |g (1948) --  |t Sacred cows and public lands  |g (1948) --  |t Statesmen on the lam  |g (1948) -- THREE :  |t DESERT, WATER, AND THE WEST:  |t The West  |g (1947) --  |t Flood in the desert  |g (1952) --  |t Our hundred year plan  |g (1950) --  |t And fractions drive me mad  |g (1954) -- FOUR :  |t PROTECTION OF THE NATIONAL PARKS:  |t National Park Service  |g (1949) --  |t Shall we let them ruin our National Parks?  |g (1950) --  |t Let's close the National Parks  |g (1953) --  |t Intramural giveaway  |g (1954) -- FIVE :  |t THE WESTERN LAND GRAB, 1950s:  |t Two-gun Desmond is back  |g (1951) --  |t An old steal refurbished  |g (1952) --  |t Conservation : down and on the way out  |g (1954) --  |t One-way partnership derailed  |g (1955) 
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