Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West

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239 Index Page numbers in italics refer to figures. Abbey, Edward, 10; Desert Solitaire, 159–60, 161; monkey-wrenching, 160–61; as public lands ranching critic, 152, 153 Abbott, Carl, 129, 163 Action for Cities (NRPB), 127–28 Adams, Ansel, 50, 130 aerospace industry, 105, 108, 111 African Americans, 39, 136, 138; as migrant workers, 86, 106; race riots, 57, 128 agrarian republicanism, 111, 127, 196; versus biocentrism, 66; in California, 86; as cultural radicalism, 6, 46; frontier thesis and, 113; Great Depression, 87; John Wesley Powell and, 6, 23; links South and West, 139; New Deal and, 78, 95, 96; in Newlands Act, 24; Populist movement and, 19, 25 agrarian West, 15–16, 19–43 passim, 60, 96, 172, 202; John Wesley Powell and, 4, 6; as nationalist West, 28, 41, 46, 112; producerism and, 45; tourism and, 183; versus wilderness West, 152, 195, 197–98. See also cattle ranching; cowboy ; pioneer; public lands ranching Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 79, 96 Alaska, 71, 148, 151 Albert, Ethel M., 125 Alcatraz Island (Calif.), 145–46, 147 All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy), 175 American Exodus (Taylor and Lange), 85–86, 196 American Farm Bureau Federation, 97, 102 American Federalism (Elazar), 136, 140, 154 American History and Its Geographic Conditions (Semple), 11, 32 American Indian Movement (AIM), 34– 35, 146 American Prairie Reserve (Mont.), 183, 186, 191 And Still the Waters Run (Debo), 2, 88– 89 Anglo-Saxonism, 35, 58, 64, 199–200; critiques of, 45, 60–63 passim, 88, 122; defines Old West, 30; regional identities and, 11, 38–39. See also nativism; racism Angry West, The (Lamm and McCarthy), 155–56, 157, 158 Arches National Monument (Utah), 159, 160 240 • Index architecture, 14, 165, 180; California, 54–55, 61, 62; Mission style, 61; Native American, 71; New Mexican adobe, 62; Spanish colonial, 61, 181 “Are Regional Cultural Differences Diminishing ?” (Glenn and Simmons), 138, 139 aridity, 18, 32, 152, 160, 177; John Wesley Powell’s definition of, 4–8 passim, 66, 130, 191; New Deal confronts, 95, 96; public lands ranching and, 152, 156 Arizona, 26, 35, 139, 198; dam projects, 131; environmental protection in, 182; Great Depression era, 86; Great Recession era, 198; immigration restriction , 199; intrastate subregions, 69, 71, 143; Native Americans in, 68, 69, 71, 92, 118; New Deal programs, 97; population growth, 180; public lands, 117, 153, 157; wildfires, 201. See also Grand Canyon (Ariz.); Phoenix (Ariz.) aspenization, 197. See also rural gentrification Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad (AT&SF), 45, 47 Austin, Mary, 75, 86, 112; The American Rhythm, 67, 68; as cultural radical, 47, 65–67, 145, 178; Hispanic culture and, 60, 67, 87; The Land of Little Rain, 66–67; as local colorist, 22, 39; Native Americans and, 67, 68, 73, 74; “El Pueblo de Las Uvas,” 60, 67; as regional spokesperson, 60, 62; use of subregional scale, 11, 65–67; “The Walking Woman,” 47, 65–66, 67 automobile: as agent of metropolitanization , 53; interstate highway system, 110, 111, 150; tourism, 11, 32, 51, 160; urban West and, 110, 127, 129, 165; wilderness experience and, 51– 52, 160 Babbitt, Bruce, 184–85, 187 Bailey, Robert G., 148–49 Bancroft, H. H.: California Pastoral, 59– 60 Bandelier, Adolph, 3, 59 Bear River (Idaho–Utah–Wyo.), 193 “Becoming West” (Cronon, Miles, and Gitlin), 176 beef industry, 202 Benedict, Ruth, 70–71, 72 Bennett, H. H., 99 Bensel, Richard Franklin: Sectionalism and American Political Development, 140–41 Berg, Peter, 147, 148 Berge, Wendell, 105, 107 Bessey, R. F., 101–2 Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (Stegner ), 3, 115, 129–30, 131, 134 Beyond the Rangeland Conflict (Dagget and Dusard), 186 Bicentennial celebration, 135, 146 Bierstadt, Albert, 3, 32, 45, 173 Billington, Ray Allen, 126 bioregionalism, 14, 147–148, 167, 196 Bird Cloud (Proulx), 195–98 passim, 201 bison, 17, 49, 167–68, 169, 183, 184. See also Buffalo Commons Bizzell, W. B., 71 Black Hills (S. Dak.), xiv, 34–35, 51, 120, 146 Blood Meridian (McCarthy), 172, 175 Boas, Franz, 58, 59, 64, 68, 69, 70 Bollens, Scott, 189, 190 Bolton, Herbert: “The Epic of Greater America,” 63, 114, 177; frontier concept of, 63, 114, 122, 177; Hispanic West and, 62–64, 66; The Spanish Borderlands, 37, 63 Bonanza (television series), 127, 151 Bonneville Dam, 100, 102, 107 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), 92, 102 borderlands, 37, 66, 175, 199–200, 201; as transnational subregion, 63, 64, 140 Borglum, Gutzon, 35–36, 120 Botkin, B. A., 92; Folk-Say, 33, 71–72 Brandt, Joseph, 71, 89 Brigham, Albert Perry, 13 Brokeback Mountain...