What You See in Clear Water: Life on the Wind River Reservation - Rilegato

O'Gara, Geoffrey

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679404155 ISBN 13: 9780679404156

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Traces the history of the Wind River Reservation of Wyoming, home to the unrelated Shoshone and Arapaho tribes, from the nineteenth century to the present day, and describes the complex legal struggle over control of the land and rights to water from the river that runs through it, between the Native American tribes and the local farmers. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione

"The American West is an arid empire; water means survival, its allocation is of enormous consequence. What You See in Clear Water is a close look at the particularities of a hundred years of tangled Native American and whiteman history and problem solving in a Wyoming watershed. This is a terrific book by a writer patient and sympathetic enough to air all the complex issues, the triumphs and failures, without judging anybody. Here in the West we need a lot more regional studies like this; maybe they'd help us come to understand the processes of adjudication. In the meantime, Geoffrey O'Gara is to be applauded."
--William Kittredge

L'autore

A journalist and the author of A Long Road Home: Journeys through America's Present in Search of America's Past, Geoffrey O'Gara lives in Lander, Wyoming.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679404155
• ISBN 13: 9780679404156
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 285