Fire on the Mountain

Rancher John Vogelin had lived all his life under the blazing New Mexico sun, and there was no reason for him to believe he would spend the last years of his life anywhere else -- until the day he was told he would have to get out of the way to make room for a missile base. But Vogelin wasn't about to leave without a fight.

Edward Abbey spent most of his life in the American Southwest. The author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the much celebrated Desert Solitaire, which decried the waste of America's wilderness, Abbey was one of the country's foremost defenders of the natural environment. He died in 1989.