Lonesome Landscapes

Andrew Gulliford is professor of history at Fort Lewis College. His books include Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions, The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes, and Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Privatizing Public Lands 2. Saving the Land No One Wanted: Ranchers, Writers, and the Roots of Conservation 3. The BLM’s Coming of Age: From Girl Rangers to National Monuments 4. Creating a Landscape System for BLM’s Conservation Lands 5. Voices from the Land: Indigenous and Hispanic Advocacy 6. Monuments Lost and Found: The Battle Over Boundaries 7. Wilderness, Wild Rivers, Historic Trails, and the Public Lands Mosaic 8. The Character of Canyons and from Scenery to Science 9. From Las Cienegas in Arizona to Alaska’s Birch Creek 10. Lessons from the Lost Coast and a Bears Ears Kiva Endnotes Bibliography Appendices Index

“A valuable contribution to the literature of American public land conservation history and policy. Gulliford succeeds admirably in bringing this substantial but greatly overlooked portion of the American landscape into vivid focus.” —Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation and Center for Humans & Nature“Gulliford does an outstanding job shining a light on the overlooked National Conservation Lands System by tying them into the broader story of the American West, public lands management, and those who have helped shaped all three.” —Michael Childers, Colorado State University