"In recovering the process by which American ranchers achieved
their political coming-of-age, Karen Merrill's "Public Lands and
Political Meaning breaks new ground. Here the history of ranchlands
policy, long oversimplified and even truncated by western and
public lands historians, is presented as a complex, nuanced, and
interdisciplinary narrative. Merrill forces us to see how
inescapable is the reach of the past, as the political choices
ranchers and administrators fought over nearly a century ago set
the stage for the policy battles that rage today over western
grazing rights. Anyone who cares about the fate of our nation's
beleaguered public lands should read this book."--Victoria Saker
Woeste, author of "The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and
Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945
"Karen Merrill's "Public Lands and Political Meaning provides a
new and refreshing perspective on the ongoing struggles for control
over the public's vast acreage in the American West. Merrill's
pathbreaking and lucid analysis reveals how the entangling of
private property with public lands has given to ranchers,
government agents, and now environmentalists a set of powerful but
ultimately limited tools to reckon their relations to one another
and to the land. With this book, the political history of the
public domain moves back to the center of American history."--Louis
S. Warren, author of "The Hunter's Game: Poachers and
Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America
"In "Public Lands and Political Meaning, Karen R. Merrill offers
a provocative and original analysis of the roots of recent
controversies involving ranchers, environmentalists, and government
officials in the West.She shows how a seemingly simple
question--who owns "the public domain"?--has generated intense and
far-reaching debate throughout the twentieth century. Her account
of the contested meaning of the vast federal estate sheds new light
on the history of the State. This is an important book."--Adam
Rome, author of "The Bulldozer in the Countryside and editor of
Environmental History
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