acking houses, creameries, dehydrators, and textile mills...
9. Ecologies of Sprawl: The Land-Use Nexus
In a reflective commentary on the western American appetite for uninhibited boosterism, historian and essayist Patricia Nelson Limerick offered this witty statement: "If Hollywood wanted to capture the emotional center of Western history, its movies would be about real estate." While the celebratory sprawl that characterized the Los Angeles Basin...
Epilogue: This Special Place
Oregon writer Ken Kesey offered up a modern-day, real-life story in a brief personal memoir of his boyhood trek from eastern Colorado to Oregon during the war-hot summer of 1943. Kesey's father, who had enlisted in the Navy, was taking the family to Grandma and Grandpa's new farm in Coburg, Oregon, where they had recently moved "seeking richer dirt and brighter horizons." ...
Publication Year: 2004
OCLC Number: 669512871
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