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Christopher Ketcham
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July 2019
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
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2019
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4 editions
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Ed Abbey fans will like my book
Howdy folks at Goodreads: Outside Magazine declared my new book, "This Land," to be "the 'Desert Solitaire' of our time." Check out the book please!
“I say it's extremism to decimate pine forests, denude the desert grasslands, seed the steppe with cyanide bombs, send Bull Hogs into pinyon-juniper stands and turn birds to red mist. Ecosaboteurs destroy inanimate objects. The real extremists among us destroy life for profit.”
― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Everything I thought about cows as an Easterner-come-west is wrong. They are not symbols of a noble culture of mounted herdsmen. They are not cute. They are an invasive species, Bos Taurus, a water-loving European animal not fit for arid climates, and their cancer-like effects on the land have not ceased.”
― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Unmolested and with grass to eat, a tortoise can live eighty years. Their populations have plummeted in the Mojave in recent years, victims of a perfect storm of drought, sprawl development, solar energy projects, off-road vehicle enthusiasts (who crush them under their wheels), poaching, vandals with pistols (who use them for target practice), and, not least, livestock grazing.”
― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
― This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
