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The result of two remarkable conferences held by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, A Society to Match the Scenery is a diverse collection of essays on the future of the American West from many of the regions most talented writers, activists, politicians, lawyers, poets, journalists, environmentalists, and historians. Sometimes in agreement, sometimes in contention, these thoughtful and creative voices help us to see the West in all its complex diversity and remind us that this decade is one in which opportunities may be realized for a new and better Western experience. Contributors to this volume include Wallace Stegner, William Kittredge, Bruce Babbitt, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Terry Tempest Williams, Charles F. Wilkinson, Edward Dorn, and Walter Echo-Hawk, among many others.

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title:A Society to Match the Scenery : Personal Visions of the Future of the American West
author:Holthaus, Gary H.
publisher:University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin:0870813005
print isbn13:9780870813009
ebook isbn13:9780585023823
language:English
subjectWest (U.S.)--Description and travel, West (U.S.)--Civilization--20th century.
publication date:1991
lcc:F595.3.S63 1991eb
ddc:978/.033
subject:West (U.S.)--Description and travel, West (U.S.)--Civilization--20th century.
A SOCIETY TO MATCH THE SCENERY
Personal Visions of the Future of the American West
Gary Holthaus, Patricia Nelson Limerick,
Charles F. Wilkinson, and Eve Stryker Munson,
editors
A project of the Center of the American West,
University of Colorado at Boulder
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
Copyright 1991 by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All right reserved.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A Society to match the scenery: personal visions of the future of the American West / Gary Holthaus
[et. al.].
p. cm.
"A project of the Center of the American West, University of Colorado at Boulder."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87081-241-6; ISBN 0-87081-300-5 (pbk.)
1. West (U.S.)Description and travel19812. West (U.S.)Civilization20th
century. I. Holthaus, Gary H., 1932II. University of Colorado, Boulder. Center of the
American West.
F595.3.S63 1991
978'.033dc20
91-24957
CIP

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Co-Chairs
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Charles R. Wilkinson, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder
Susan Clarke, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Peter Decker, President, Decker and Associates
Roger Echo-Hawk, Pawnee Tribal Historian
Charles Foraman, Professor, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder
Eleanor Gehres, Manager, Western History Department, Denver Public Library
Bill Hornby, Senior Editor, The Denver Post
Ed Marston, Publisher, High Country News
Charles Middleton, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder
Duane Smith, Professor, Department of History, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado
Barbara Sudler, President, Colorado Historical Foundation
William Wei, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
For further information contact,
Gary H. Holthaus, Director
University of Colorado
Campus Box 401
Boulder, CO 80309 (303) 492-1876
Page v
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
PART ONE: Introduction
Speaking of the West
3
Gary Holthaus, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Charles F. Wilkinson
Thoughts of My Desert Home
11
Cordelia Candelaria
Summer Rain in Aspen
12
Cordelia Candelaria
Rough Passage on I-80
13
Edward Dorn
PART TWO: Mr. Jefferson in 1803
The American West: A Personal Dream From the Vantage
Point of Monticello in 1803
21
Thomas Jefferson/Clay Straus Jenkinson
PART THREE: The People
The Bowl
31
Terry Tempest Williams
The Poet Lets His Tongue Hang Down
34
Edward Dorn
Plainsong at Crowheart Butte
37
Peter F. Michelson
Motel Superbo
42
Edward Dorn
Progress or Decline? Judging the History of Western
Expansion
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