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"Long before men walked in Colorado, the land that would one day become the Centennial State, was already beginning to take shape. This book investigates the natural history of Colorado from the formation of the Rocky Mountains to the earliest flora and fauna. Using easy-to-follow text and full color photographs of Colorado's majestic landscape, the book will also consider the ways Colorado's human inhabitants have shaped and changed the environment...
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2002.
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Beginning with the trailblazing expedition of Lewis and Clark, Early American Naturalists tells the stories of men and women of the 1800s who crossed the Mississippi River and encountered the new life of the western New World. Explorers profiled include John James Audubon, Martha Maxwell, and John Muir.
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©1995
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Bowden takes us on a wild journey through his past and across the gritty American and Mexican West, ranting all the way about our poisoned earth and corrupted society. Bowden's "blood orchids" are evil, malignant blossoms that feed on nuclear waste and the horrors of war, massacre, torture, and prejudice. We have a compulsion for "killing the thing we love," Bowden claims, an urge responsible, in part, for the severe damage we've done to the environment....
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[2002]
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"In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of the World, an exploration of America's longest wilderness corridor, a harsh and unforgiving region inhabited by men and women whose way of life is as...
17) Steep trails
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[2021]
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"A collection of essays exploring 29 years of beloved naturalist John Muir's life as he explored the West. Considered one of the patron saints of twentieth-century environmental activity, John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West but also fought for its preservation. Steep Trails collects together his essays and letters written as he traveled through the West, capturing the personal, heartfelt connection he...
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1991
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"Across the sea of grass" traces the journey of Lewis and Clark and other early pioneers of the land beyond the Mississippi who made their way across the plains that were home to buffalo, grizzly bears and tribes of Mandan, Sioux, and Pawnee. It shows how thousands of determined settlers turned the wild lands into wheat fields and why the destruction of the buffalo herds had such an impact on the Indian population.
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