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Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region
Atlas of the New West Portrait of a Changing Region Author:James J. Robb An atlas for our times that makes sense of the fast-paced transformation of the American West. The West. Americans hold dearly to old ideas of it as a unique, wild place of majestic space, ranching and mining, small-town life, and opportunity. And so it can still be--but rarely. The West's central reality nowadays is that it is new. This newness... more » has never been so well presented in this book's forty-six full-color, three-dimensional, computer-generated maps; its two brilliant essays; its informative sidebars; its boxed information (for example, how the first seven wolves introduced into Yellowstone died); and its dozens of charts and graphs, highlighting: * The New West's fortunes now ride on tourism and a postindustrial, high-tech economy.
* The West is America's fastest urbanizing region.
* Rodeos, dude ranches, and open range now abide with sprawling cities, ski resorts, plugged-in telecommuters, micro-breweries, and mountain biking meccas.
* Illustrations show old Western battles taking new forms--who owns what land? who controls what water rights? and how much development is too much?
* Historical and analytical essays by Patricia Limerick and Charles Wilkinson
*Twenty original photographs by Peter Goin All are here--and much more--in this valuable, beautiful, and eye-opening examination of life as it is now in our Western states.« less