Savage dreams
Subtitle: a journey into the landscape wars of the American West
By: Rebecca Solnit.
Edition: 1st California pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Landscape -- West (U.S.) -- History; Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada; Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Wars; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Description: "In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site, in what was called a nuclear testing program but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. Savage Dreams is an exploration of these two landscapes.

Together they serve as our national Eden and Armageddon and offer up a lot of the history of the west, not only in terms of Indian and environmental wars, but in terms of the relationship between culture - the generation of beliefs and views - and its implementation as politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-403) and index.
Originally published: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1994.