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Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Full of politically charged, often enraged essays on such matters as urban growth ("The Blob Comes to Arizona"), the gentrification of the small-town West ("Telluride Blues--A Hatchet Job"), and wilderness preservation ("Let Us Now Praise Mountain Lions").
Author
Publisher
Eastern Washington University Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
ix, 196 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang in 1975, Edward Abbey became the spokesperson for a generation of Americans angered by the unthinking destruction of our natural heritage. Without consultation, Abbey based the central character of eco-guerilla George Washington Hayduke on his friend Doug Peacock. Since then Peacock has become an articulate environmental individualist writing about the West's abundant wildscapes. Abbey and Peacock had an at times...
Publisher
Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with the Western United States Land Grant Universities Cooperative Extension Services
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
x, 628 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide to weeds in the West, written by seven extension specialists and published by the Wyoming Agricultural Extension, features 900 color photographs that show more than 350 weed species occurring in 12 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The authors describe early growth stages, stages of maturity, and features for the positive identification for each weed.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages
Language
English
Description
"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hagers fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in whats left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to...
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