Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction xv
5. Select Harper’s Conservation Essays
6. The West: A Plundered Province 3
7. The Anxious West 22
8. The West Against Itself 45
9. Sacred Cows and Public Lands 74
10. Statesmen on the Lam 103
11. Two-Gun Desmond Is Back 113
12. Billion Dollar Jackpot 123
13. The Sturdy Corporate Homesteader 133
14. Heading for the Last Roundup 143
15. Conservation: Down and on the Way Out 153
16. Western Paradox
17. Chapter 1. To the Traveler’s Eye 177
18. Chapter 2. Damnedest Country Under the Sun 223
19. Chapter 3. Emptiness Can Affect the ary266 266
20. Chapter 4. Unregarded Inheritance from the Frontier 309
21. Chapter 5. The Eighth City of Cibola 359
22. Chapter 6. A Certain Mentality 401
23. Chapter 7. Nemesis 440
24. Epilogue 467
25. Notes 473
26. Bibliography 484
27. Acknowledgments 529
28. Index 535