Includes bibliographical references and index.

How it is that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly on

Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized—or at least, radically reconfigured in some way. I

The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict between rancher