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The first collection of the conservation essays of Puiitzer-winner Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), DeVoto's West will introduce a new generation to pungent, eloquent prose that has retained its relevance and remains a remarkably current and timely argument for protecting public lands. Editor Edward K. Muller introduces these essays (many of which originally appeared in Harper's renowned column The Easy Chair) that address the plundering of resources by absentee eastern corporations, Westerners' conflicted relationship to exploitation, and the degradation of the national parks.

About the Author :
Edward K. Muller has published widely on historical geography and is co-editor of The Atlas of Pennsylvania and North-America: the Historical Geography of a Changing Continent. The late Bernard DeVoto was born in Ogden, Utah, and spent his adult life in the East, first teaching English at Northwestern University, Chicago, then living in New York, and finally settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the subject of an acclaimed biography, The Uneasy Chair, by Wallace Stegner.

Review :
"The point of all this is that in the West we are, far more than any other part of the country, in touch with the earth and subject to it…. Our awareness is very deep, and this awareness is a fundamental characteristic of us and our land." (Footnote on the West) "Every dedicated environmentalist should read this book. It contains a crucial chapter of our history. At the end of World War II, the conservation movement championed by the two Roosevelt presidents was in disarray and had lost its voice. In the years after, Bernard DeVoto provided that voice, through the Easy Chair columns that are reproduced in DeVoto's West." "The publication of this collection…could not be more timely…. Reading these essays today is as necessary and vital to protecting our American West as it was when DeVoto wrote them half a century ago." (Western American Literature)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780804010733
  • Publisher: Ohio University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Swallow Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0804010730
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: History, Conservation, and the Public Good


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