Main entry:

Solnit, Rebecca.

Title & Author:

Savage dreams : a journey into the landscape wars of the American West / Rebecca Solnit.

Edition:

1st California pbk. ed.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.

Description:

xii, 408 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Notes:
Originally published: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, ©1994.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-403) and index.
Dust, Or Erasing the Future: The Nevada Test Site. From Hell to Breakfast. Like Moths to a Candle. April Fool's Day. Trees. Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes. Golden Hours and Iron Country. Ruby Valley and the Ranch. The War. Keeping Pace with the Tortoise -- Water, Or Forgetting the Past: Yosemite National Park. The Rainbow. Spectators. Framing the View. Vanishing (Remaining). Fire in the Garden. The Name of the Snake. Up the River of Mercy. Savage's Grave. Full Circle.

Summary:

"In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site, in what was called a nuclear testing program but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. Savage Dreams is an exploration of these two landscapes.
Together they serve as our national Eden and Armageddon and offer up a lot of the history of the west, not only in terms of Indian and environmental wars, but in terms of the relationship between culture - the generation of beliefs and views - and its implementation as politics."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520220668 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780520220669 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Landscapes West (U.S.) History.
Nuclear weapons Testing Environmental aspects Nevada.
Indians of North America Wars West (U.S.)
Armes nucléaires Essais Aspect de l'environnement Nevada.
Indians of North America Wars
Landscapes
Nuclear weapons Testing Environmental aspects
Travel
Iwi taketake.
Indians of North America West (U.S.) Wars.
West (U.S.) Description and travel.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
États-Unis (Ouest) Descriptions et voyages.
California Yosemite National Park
Nevada
West United States
Landscapes (environments) United States West.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214948
Call No.: F591 .S6685 1999
Status: Available