This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West

Christopher Ketcham
An indictment of how public lands in the West are managed — for ranchers, miners, and developers, not for the land itself. Ketcham names names and doesn't flinch. Angry, documented, and necessary.
desert Ecology & Conservation Prairie & Plains Narrative Nonfiction American Southwest
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Publisher Viking
Published 2019
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