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| Format physique additionnel : | Online version: De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955. DeVoto's West. Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2005 (OCoLC)607605848 Online version: De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955. DeVoto's West. Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2005 (OCoLC)609908339 |
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| Type d’ouvrage : | Publication gouvernementale, Publication gouvernementale provinciale ou d'état, Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Livre, Ressource Internet |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Bernard Augustine De Voto; Edward K Muller |
| ISBN : | 0804010722 9780804010726 0804010730 9780804010733 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 57211070 |
| Notes : | "Published in association with the Center for American Places Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Staunton, Virginia." "DeVoto's West collects twenty-two of DeVoto's essays on the American West and convervation issues"--Introd. |
| Description : | xxxv, 275 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contenu : | [Pt.]1. DeVoto's West: Footnote on the West (1927) ; Fossil remnants of the frontier (1935) ; The West : a plundered province (1934) ; The anxious West (1946) ; The high country (1952) -- [Pt.] 2. The Western land grab, 1940s: The West against itself (1947) ; The western land grab (1947) ; U.S. Forest Service and the western land grab (1948) ; Sacred cows and public lands (1948) ; Statesmen on the lam (1948) -- [Pt.] 3. Desert, water, and the West: The West (1947) ; Flood in the desert (1952) ; Our hundred year plan (1950) ; And fractions drive me mad (1954) -- [Pt.] 4. Protection of the National Parks: National Park Service (1949) ; Shall we let them ruin our National Parks? (1950) ; Let's close the National Parks (1953) ; Intramural giveaway (1954) -- [Pt.] 5. The Western land grab, 1950s: Two-gun Desmond is back (1951) ; An old steal refurbished (1952) ; Conservation : down and on the way out (1954) ; One-way partnership derailed (1955). |
| Responsabilité : | Bernard DeVoto ; edited by Edward K. Muller. |
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Résumé :
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 Bancroft prizes. But his most passionate writing--at once incisive and eloquent--advocated conservation of America's prairies, rangeland, forests, mountains, canyons, and deserts. This collection showcases the complexity, depth, and breadth of DeVoto's thinking. These essays (many of which originally appeared in the renowned Harper's column The Easy Chair) persuasively advocate stewardship of public land. DeVoto addressed the plundering of resources by absentee eastern corporations, westerners' conflicted relationship with the forces of exploitation, and the degradation of the national parks.--From publisher description.
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