Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them

by Karen R. Merrill and Karen R Merrill

The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict between ranchers and the federal government over public grazing lands. Drawing upon neglected sources from organized ranchers, this is the first book to provide a historically based explanation for why the relationship between ranchers and the federal government became so embattled long before modern environmentalists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520228626
• ISBN13: 9780520228627
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"