Description
Bernard DeVoto was a conservationist and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. This volume brings together ten of his acerbic and timely essays on western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, "Western Paradox".
"This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself... His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword
Douglas Brinkley is director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. Patricia Nelson Limerick is professor of history at the University of Colorado.