Rocky Mountain Divide : : Selling and Saving the West / / John B. Wright.
The opposing forces of conservation and development have shaped and will continue to shape the natural environment and scenic beauty of the American West. Perhaps nowhere are their opposite effects more visible than in the neighboring states of Colorado and Utah, so alike in their spectacular mounta...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART I LAND AND LIFE
- 1 GEOGRAPHERS AND LANDSCAPES
- 2 LAND REGULATION AND CONSERVATION IN AMERICA
- 3 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST: SEARCHING COUNTRY
- PART II COLORADO: THE ICON
- 4 ELDORADO IN THE ROCKIES
- 5 THE FRONT RANGE: GEOGRAPHY AND DEVELOPMENT
- 6 GOLDEN TO FORT COLLINS: THE TRIALS OF SUBURBAN LAND CONSERVATION
- 7 BOULDER: A MODEL OPEN SPACE COMMUNITY
- 8 SKI COUNTRY: UNCONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL TOURISM
- 9 SOUTHERN COLORADO: THE OUTBACK
- 10 THE WEST SLOPE: RIVERS, OIL SHALE, AND SUNSET LIVING
- 11 THERE LIES A CITY
- PART III UTAH: AN ELUSIVE ZION
- 12 THE MORMON NATION
- 13 MONEY-DIGGING AND SEER STONES
- 14 COLONIZATION AND THE MORMON LANDSCAPE
- 15 THE WASATCH FRONT: GEOGRAPHY AND DEVELOPMENT
- 16 SALT LAKE: CARVING UP THE EMERALD CITY
- 17 PROVO: HAPPY VALLEY HANGS ON
- 18 BOUNTIFUL, OGDEN, AND BRIGHAM CITY: SUBURBAN ZION SPREADS NORTH
- 19 THE WASATCH BACK-VALLEYS: MORMON HEARTLAND
- 20 IF YOU BUILD IT, HE WILL COME
- PART IV HOME
- 21 THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOME
- APPENDIX LAND-SAVING GROUPS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX