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Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country
Jedediah S. Rogers
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Description for Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country
Paperback. Analyzes the critical role of roads and clashing worldviews in historical fights over wilderness in southern Utah and Northern Arizona Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWU; HBJK; RNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona—a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas—is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial developers to wilderness preservation advocates. Roads are central to the conflicts raging in an area perceived as one of the last large road less places in the continental United States. The canyon country in fact contains an extensive network of dirt trails and roads, many originally constructed under the authority of a one-sentence statute in an 1866 mining law, later known as R.S. 2477. While well-groomed and paved roads ... Read more
The canyon country of southern Utah and northern Arizona—a celebrated desert of rock and sand punctuated by gorges and mesas—is a region hotly contested among vying and disparate interests, from industrial developers to wilderness preservation advocates. Roads are central to the conflicts raging in an area perceived as one of the last large road less places in the continental United States. The canyon country in fact contains an extensive network of dirt trails and roads, many originally constructed under the authority of a one-sentence statute in an 1866 mining law, later known as R.S. 2477. While well-groomed and paved roads ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607813132
SKU
V9781607813132
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About Jedediah S. Rogers
Jedediah S. Rogers received his PhD in American history from Arizona State University and is a historian with Historical Research Associates, Inc. in Missoula, Montana. He is editor of In the President’s Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall, 1879–1892, winner of the Evans Handcart Award from Utah State University and the Best Documentary Book Award from the Mormon History ... Read more
Reviews for Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country
“A fresh and engaging contribution to environmental history, especially for its interpretation of the Mormon cultural heritage as a driving force for the economic development of the Utah hinterlands. Rogers’s work shows how cultural imperatives arising out of the nineteenth-century settlement period, including memories of the 1879 to 1880 Bluff–San Juan expedition, gave roads their lasting and significant meaning in ... Read more