Main entry:

Solnit, Rebecca, author.

Title & Author:

Savage dreams : a journey into the hidden wars of the American west / Rebecca Solnit.

Edition:

20th anniversary edition.

Publication:

Berkeley : Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, [2014]

Description:

xxix, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
"With a new preface"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition; Acknowledgments; 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 County; 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; Afterword; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H
IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

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. It was called a "nuclear testing program" but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780520282285 (paperback)
0520282280 (paperback)

Subject:

Landscapes West (U.S.) History.
Indians of North America Wars West (U.S.)
Nuclear weapons United States History.
Nuclear weapons Testing Environmental aspects Nevada.
Armes nucléaires Essais Aspect de l'environnement Nevada.
Indians of North America Wars.
Landscapes.
Nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons Testing Environmental aspects.
West (U.S.) History.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire.
California Yosemite National Park.
Nevada.
United States.
West United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287847
Call No.: BIB 229250
Status: Available