An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West

by Worster and Donald Worster

Book Overview

The West remains unsettled--by cultural habits, intellectual debate, and ecological conditions. In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking. His subjects are four linked topics: the legacy of John Wesley Powell to western resource management;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826314821
• ISBN13: 9780826314826
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"