Regional Studies in Environmental Science, Natural Literature & History, Environmental Conservation & Protection - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Writers on the Range is a book by seventeen westerners about the American West. It is a story of place, mostly good but sometimes bad, a celebration of community, or at least its potential, and a tribute to the men and women, neither saints nor devils, who are the heart and soul of this land of desert, prairie, and forested mountain. Yet it is also much more. It is the melding of diverse western minds, backgrounds and beliefsranchers and one-time ranchwives, poets and policy tinkerers, essayists and hunters, journalists and political theorists, and community organizers and urban refugees - into a fierce resolve to stake claim and take a stand for a land that is loved in common.Editorials
Booknews
Twenty-one reprinted essays cover topics such as wise use and the west's sentimental economy; freedom and the environmental movement; the clash of cultures in the emerging west; the Camas County, Idaho, water crisis; a Jeffersonian green proposal; a politics appropriate to place; and western artists and analysts working together. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1998
Publisher
University of Colorado,Department of Fine Arts
Pages
264
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780870814822