Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary FrontierViking, 1993 - 320 halaman In counties the size of states, where the daily UPS route covers an area larger than Connecticut and the corner bar is 75 miles away, the author of Out West: An American Journey discovers a group of unforgettable individualists, living very differently from most 20th-century Americans. Photographs. |
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... federal agencies such as the Forest Service , Park Service , Fish and Wildlife Agency , and Bureau of Land Management . The contemporary frontier contains a vast amount of public domain , although the sparsely settled places are not ...
... federal agencies such as the Forest Service , Park Service , Fish and Wildlife Agency , and Bureau of Land Management . The contemporary frontier contains a vast amount of public domain , although the sparsely settled places are not ...
Halaman 265
... federal lands , unavailable for private development , in their midst . But in truth , the correlation was just the opposite . Federal ownership is a symptom , not a cause of sparse populations . In most of the nineteenth century , the ...
... federal lands , unavailable for private development , in their midst . But in truth , the correlation was just the opposite . Federal ownership is a symptom , not a cause of sparse populations . In most of the nineteenth century , the ...
Halaman 266
... federal administration and its appointees are reluctant to enforce them , the courts are not . Reform is in the air for the Mining Act of 1872 , a legislative relic from the times when gold and silver were the basis for the country's ...
... federal administration and its appointees are reluctant to enforce them , the courts are not . Reform is in the air for the Mining Act of 1872 , a legislative relic from the times when gold and silver were the basis for the country's ...
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Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier Dayton Duncan Pratinjau terbatas - 2000 |
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