literary influence of, 299–300
melancholia and moodiness in, 6, 76, 78, 79, 191, 195, 279, 300, 303
modern relevancy of, 3, 59, 182–83, 221, 224, 286–87
nonfictional vs. fictional work in, 8, 102, 266, 277–78
personal freedom as theme in, 24, 69, 95, 220, 221, 255–56, 285
philosophizing in, 33, 35, 78–79, 103, 172–73, 285
poetic prose and romanticism in, 7, 24, 35, 80, 81–83, 182, 191, 202–3, 267, 285–86
as provoking people into action, 8, 9–10, 35, 69, 180–83, 254, 299, 304
“regional” appeal of, 2, 10, 12, 238, 302
sexist language in, 277, 284
Stegner on, 11, 12, 151, 155–56, 304–5, 312
Stegner’s writing style and career vs., 4, 6, 8, 9–10, 68, 148–49, 183, 190–91
Thoreau compared to, 8, 101–2, 106–7, 172, 189, 202, 267, 285, 300
“transcendence” as theme in, 33, 65, 78, 136–37
in transition to nonfiction, 83, 100, 101
University of Arizona collection of, 60, 78, 177, 233, 300, 303, 315, 316
see also specific published works
Abbey, Josh, 104, 227, 316
Abbey, Mildred, 19–20, 20, 21, 22, 265, 305
Abbey, Nancy, 21
Abbey, Paul Revere, 20, 20, 21, 187, 265, 267
leftist politics of, 19, 20, 22, 69
Abbey, Rebecca “Becky,” 227, 228
Abbey, Rita (second wife), 72, 76, 104
Abbey, Susie, 226–27, 251
Abbey, William Tell, 187
Abbey’s Road (Abbey), 302
Abzug, Bonnie (char.), 180, 277
Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey (Loeffler), 188, 300, 320
adventure tourism, 74, 88
see also recreational tourism
agriculture, in West, 6, 26, 27, 36–38, 39, 87, 118, 123–24, 130, 179, 236, 260
Alabama, 17
Albemarle Sound, 240
Alberta, 257
Albuquerque, N. Mex., 24, 82, 184
Alcott, Louisa May, 219
Alexander, Ben, 88, 309, 310
Allston, Joe (char.), 230–31, 273–74, 316
Allston, Ruth (char.), 230, 274, 316
All the Little Living Things (Stegner), 274, 319
amenities economy, 88–89, 93
American Places (Stegner and Stegner), 155
American Sportsman, The (TV series), 317
American West, see West; western landscape
Ammons, A. R., 211
Anadarko, 112
“Anarchism and the Morality of Violence” (Abbey), 69
Anasazi culture, 47, 91, 126, 211
Andrea (Peacock’s companion), 245, 246, 247, 248, 251
Angle of Repose (Stegner), 5, 153, 263, 273, 274–76, 319
Appalachia, 19, 51
aquifers, 39, 123, 124
Arches National Monument, 8
Arches National Park, 66, 75–77, 100, 103, 104, 151, 285
Abbey as park ranger at, 66, 75, 76, 81, 97, 102, 105–7, 139
Balanced Rock in, 76–77
tourism and automobiles in, 75–76, 77, 90
Arizona, 23, 310
Arizona, University of, 316
Abbey as teacher at, 79, 233–34, 309, 316, 319
Abbey collection at, 60, 78, 177, 233, 300, 303, 315, 316
Army, U.S., 24, 219
Audubon Society, 240
Baars, Donald L., 309
Babbitt, Bruce, 9, 282
“Bagpipes for Ed” (Quammen), 303–4
Balanced Rock, 76–77
bark-beetle infestations, 13, 58, 61
Barnosky, Anthony, 241
Barringer, Felicity, 316
Bate, Walter Jackson, 307–8, 310, 319
Bear Peak fire, 40
bears, 41, 122, 125, 243, 244, 246, 248, 249–51, 256, 317
beavers, 36, 190, 261
Beckley, W. Va., 265
Beerbohm, Max, 104
beetle infestations, 13, 58, 61, 62, 308
Benson, Jackson J., 71, 173–74, 300, 303, 320
Berry, Tanya, 51, 52, 307
Berry, Wendell, 8, 10, 51–57, 52, 66, 70, 72, 77, 101, 158, 164, 233, 246–47, 266, 271, 278, 282, 307, 318
at Abbey funeral service, 11, 151, 305, 312
background of, 55–56
on “land use,” 54, 130, 136, 236, 264–65
on literature as vast ecosystem, 54, 57, 282
writing of, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 303, 307, 315
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (Stegner), 9, 127, 128–32, 175, 306
“Big Blowup” fires (1910), 235, 236
bighorn sheep, 164, 177, 190, 196, 197
Big Rock Candy Mountain, The (Stegner), 29, 72, 73, 86, 140, 147, 262, 306
autobiographical elements in, 85, 109, 110, 142, 154
Big Sky, Mont., 252
biography, art of, 299–300, 308, 319
Johnson on, 14, 280
Stegner’s ideas on, 159–61, 280, 299, 319
Black, George, 316
Blackfeet Indians, 263
Black Mesa Defense Fund, 187
Black Rock Desert, 143
Bleiberg, Rob, 40–41, 45, 49, 87, 88, 89, 117, 214, 219, 311
Bloch, Steve, 123, 126, 310, 311
Bloxham, Ray, 123, 311
Book Cliffs, 125, 126
boomtowns, 41–42, 74, 100, 108–9, 110–20, 258, 264–65
busts in, 74, 115, 118, 119, 120, 311
economic benefits in, 112, 117, 119, 310, 311
environmental consequences of, 112–13, 116, 117, 119, 122–23
impermanence of, 115, 119, 120, 126
jobs created in, 112, 119
permanent scarring of landscape by, 122–23
rising crime rates in, 117, 119, 310
tourism affected by, 108, 118, 265
Boone, Daniel, 221
Boulder, Colo., 18, 31, 40, 41, 45, 46, 48, 57, 226
fires in, 42, 45
Branch, Michael, 316
Brave Cowboy, The (Abbey), 80–81, 309
Brave New West (Stiles), 309
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 10, 13, 38, 85, 270
Briggs-Copeland lecturers, 10, 85, 270
Brinkley, Douglas, 306
Brooks, Chris, 40, 42, 45
Brower, David, 134, 173–74, 182, 183
Bryce, Lord, 239
buffalo, 36, 242, 245
Burden of the Past and the English Poet, The (Bate), 307–8
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 86, 90, 93, 94, 95, 126
Bureau of Reclamation, 174
Burkholder, Bob, 301
Burnett, George, 113–15, 311
Burns, Jack (char.), 81
Bush, George W., 86–87, 115
Cabeza Prieta wilderness, 151
Cadillac Desert (Reisner), 34, 284, 313–14
Cahalan, Jim, 15, 19, 20, 21–22, 72, 266, 300, 301, 305, 318
California, 10, 35, 85, 178, 179, 230, 274, 276, 302
Canada, 239, 257, 259
Canadian lynx, 215
Canyonlands Country (Baars), 309
Canyonlands National Park, 89, 95, 175
canyons, 23, 24, 31, 32–33, 59, 89, 90–92, 109, 168, 169, 170, 177, 184, 190, 191, 193, 194, 196, 197, 207, 208–12, 309
see also specific canyons
Cape Cod, Mass., 185, 248, 253, 282–83
Capote, Truman, 148
“Capsule History of Conservation, A” (Stegner), 176, 308, 313
“Carmel Point” (Jeffers), 309
Carolina mountains, 51
Castle Valley, Utah, 66
Cathy (Abbey’s neighbor), 21
Chaco Canyon, 47, 48
Chang, Kenneth, 316
Chelsea (park ranger), 33–34
Chesler Park, 90
chohajilla (sacred datura), 210–11, 210
chukars, 194, 197
Churchill, Winston, 64
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sp; Civil War, U.S., 127
Clay Hills, Utah, 212
climate change, 13, 44, 46–48, 58, 61–62, 65, 124, 131, 136, 183, 213–14, 235, 236, 283, 307, 313, 316
environmental writing on, 183, 213–14, 307, 313
increasing drought and, 44–45, 62, 124, 178, 183
shorter winters and, 43, 58, 61, 62, 124, 236, 241
wild fires exacerbated by, 43, 62, 235, 236
wildlife habitats threatened by, 240–41
Clinton, Bill, 67
Collected Short Stories (Stegner), 263
Colorado, 30–34, 40, 41, 58–59, 129, 131, 132–35, 180, 185, 206, 225, 238
beetle infestations in, 58, 61, 62
Dinosaur National Monument in, 67, 133–35, 136–37, 173, 174, 308
fires in, 2, 17, 33–34, 40, 42–43, 44, 45, 58, 234–35, 316
Rocky Flats plant in, 57-58
Vail Pass in, 224–25
Colorado, University of, 49
Colorado College, 139
Colorado Plateau, 14, 139
Colorado River, 59, 65–66, 67, 123–24, 169, 179, 183, 189
Abbey’s rafting trip on, 191
author’s rafting trip on, 177, 178–79
dwindling water supply of, 177, 178, 183
as lifeblood of western landscape, 177–78
Powell’s rafting journey on, 127, 129, 168–69
Colorado Springs, Colo., 2, 234
Waldo Canyon fire in, 42
Communists, 219
Confessions of a Barbarian (Petersen, ed.), 303, 319
Congress, U.S., 67, 129, 131, 218, 263
“connectivity,” importance of, 239–40, 241–42, 316
Conrad, Joseph, 82
Continental Divide, 48, 223, 226
Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (Etulain), 300, 306
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth, 315
counterrorism, 217–19
Covers & Camo (Vernal shop), 113–15
Cowley, Malcolm, 161
coyotes, 26, 91, 170, 203, 253–54
Coyotes and Town Dogs (Zakin), 303
creative writing programs, 10–11, 12, 85, 269–70, 272, 279–80
Crossing to Safety (Stegner), 15, 46, 145–46, 147, 155, 200, 228, 273, 274, 302, 308, 319
autobiographical elements in, 145–46, 228
party scene in, 71
Crumb, R., 148
Cuba, 254
Cypress Hills, 263
“Damnation of a Canyon, The” (Abbey), 184, 313
dams, damming, 39, 121, 130, 136, 165–68, 173, 177, 284
decommissioning of, 183–84
environmental consequences of, 166–67, 169, 170, 178, 179, 183
opposition campaigns against, 67, 97-98, 134, 166–67, 169–71, 172, 173–74, 179, 182, 183–84, 213, 224, 313–14
see also specific dams
Daniel, John, 70, 280
datura, 209, 210–11, 210
Dawn Collector, The (Saner), 307, 308
Dead Pool (Powell), 313
Debbs, Eugene, 187
deBuys, William, 213–14, 307, 308, 314
DeChristopher, Tim, 222–24, 315
Denmark, 230
Denver, Colo., 17, 30, 32, 206, 225, 226, 232
Denver, John, 18, 34
Depression, Great, 84, 271
desert(s), 8, 24, 43, 47, 91, 100, 101, 105, 131, 158, 159, 165, 166, 178, 201, 233, 256, 286, 303, 304
Abbey on, 23, 81–82, 83, 190, 285
Abbey’s burial and funeral service in, 6, 11, 64, 151, 152, 186, 305, 312
scarring of landscape in, 90, 93, 94–95, 96, 122–24, 125–26, 311
vulnerability of, 13, 40, 43, 44, 90, 94–96, 122, 127
Desert Solitaire (Abbey), 6, 8, 24, 34, 35, 54, 66, 79, 101–3, 139, 148, 149, 179, 189, 190, 201, 202–4, 208, 238, 244, 248, 255, 276, 278, 304, 306, 310, 313, 314
autobiographical elements in, 54, 77-78, 201
complex voice of, 102–3, 202–3
dramatic life-and-death moment in, 203–4, 314–15
humor in, 102, 103, 104, 105–6
lack of traditional plot in, 101
“rabbit killing” passage in, 103
unpremeditated creation of, 100
Walden compared to, 101–2, 106–7
Desolation Canyon, 118, 125
DeVoto, Bernard, 38–40, 43, 44, 60, 85, 123, 126, 127, 135, 145, 162, 173, 235
Stegner as influenced by, 38, 39, 120, 127, 134, 150, 275, 284, 319
Stegner’s biography on, 5, 39, 145, 150, 161–62, 263, 273, 319
writing of, 120–21, 127, 263, 275, 306, 319
Diderot, Denis, 219
Dinosaur Brew Haus (Vernal, Utah), 115–17
Dinosaur National Monument, 67, 118, 133–35, 136–37, 173, 174, 308
direct-action environmentalism, 222–24
Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil (Stegner), 299
Dominy, Floyd, 174
Douglas, Kirk, 81, 83, 309
“Down the Highway with Edward Abbey” (Urrea), 206–7
Down the River (Abbey), 189
“Down the River with Henry Thoreau” (Abbey), 189, 253–54
“Down the River with Major Powell” (Abbey), 313
Dreiser, Theodore, 100
Driscoll, Dan, 165
droughts, 1, 6, 13, 17, 27, 43–45, 61, 123, 260–61, 283
climate change and, 44–45, 62, 124, 178, 183
of 1130, 47
Great Drought of 1276–1299, 47
as theme in Stegner’s writing, 30, 38, 260–61
dust bowls, 27, 37, 61, 62, 261
Dutton, Clarence Edward, 38
Eagle, Colo., 225
Eagles Nest Wilderness, Colorado, 41
Earth First!, 3, 69, 181–83, 215, 223, 224, 239, 303
Earth First! newsletter, 181
Earth Force, 222
Earth Liberation Front (ELF), 215, 216, 223
Eastend, Saskatchewan, 25–27, 258, 259–63, 264, 318
Stegner’s boyhood home in, 26, 258–59, 262
Ebsen, Buddy, 81
Eco Defense: A Field Guide to Monkey Wrenchers (Foreman), 181
EcoFlight, 122, 311
eco-sabotage, see monkeywrenching
Ecotone, 63, 316
Edward Abbey: A Life (Cahalan), 300, 318
Edwards Plateau, 240
Eisenhower administration, 173
Eisenstadter, Ingrid, 180
Eldorado Springs, Colo., 2, 31–34, 35, 40, 59, 150
elk, 122, 245, 251
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 104, 105, 233, 254
Emigrant, Mont., 245
Empire of the Beetle (Nikiforuk), 308
environmental damage, 10, 58, 283–84
agriculture as cause of, 36–37
air quality and, 117, 121, 124
beetle infestations and, 13, 58, 61, 308
boomtowns and, 112–13, 116, 117, 119, 122–23
cattle ranching and, 121–22
damming and, 166–67, 169, 170, 178, 179, 183
exploitation of resources and, 36, 111, 116, 119, 121, 124, 172
mining and, 58, 90, 93, 121
oil drilling and fracking as cause of, 111, 112–13, 116, 117, 119, 122–23, 124, 125–26, 238–39, 283, 311
proliferation of non-native species and, 205
recreational tourism and, 58, 87, 90, 93, 94–95
wildfires and, 13, 17, 40, 58, 234–35, 276, 316
to wildlife habitats and ecosystems, 96, 170, 179, 205, 238–42, 283–84, 316
see also climate change
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), 316
environmentalism, environmentalists, 1, 11, 14, 54, 86, 98, 113, 117, 129, 136, 138, 164–65, 168, 176, 180, 183, 221–22, 244
Abbey as inspiring action in, 9–10, 39, 69, 180–83
Abbey’s activism in, 9, 11, 12–13, 58, 97-98, 121–22, 166, 186–88, 213, 220, 221, 223
anti-damming crusades in, 6
7, 97-98, 134, 137, 166–67, 169–71, 172, 173–74, 179, 182, 183–84, 213, 224, 313
“connectivity”/”rewilding” efforts in, 239–40, 241–42, 316
creating wilderness in, 136
direct-action, 222–24
laws and regulations due to, 134, 175, 176, 184
monkeywrenching tactics of, 3, 9–10, 35, 69, 148, 180–81, 186–87, 214–19, 220, 221, 222–24, 243, 303
nonviolent philosophy of, 181, 187, 223
protest as public spectacle in, 222–24
Stegner’s activism in, 5, 9, 13, 67, 121, 133–34, 173–74, 175–76, 182, 213, 221, 272, 279, 281
“terrorist” label on, 10, 182, 216–19, 223
see also wilderness conservation
environmental writing, 67, 88, 175, 244, 308, 313–14
of Abbey, 9–10, 13, 49–60, 69, 96, 148, 169–70, 172, 179–83, 184, 205, 312, 313–14
anti-damming stance in, 97–98, 166, 169–70, 172, 173, 182, 313–14
on climate change, 183, 213–14, 307, 313
of DeVoto, 120–21, 306
of Stegner, 9, 59–60, 67, 87, 93–94, 134, 148, 173, 174–75, 176, 182, 272, 308, 313
Stegner’s intellectual influence in, 3
Etulain, Richard W., 300, 306
Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, The (Powell), 169, 313
extractive industries, 88, 89, 111, 112, 121–22, 125, 126, 214, 222
see also boomtowns; fracking; mining; oil drilling
False John’s campsite, 199
Faulkner, William, 101
Fayhee, M. John, 150
FBI, 182, 214, 215, 216, 315
Abbey file of, 219–20, 221, 315
counterrorism priorities in, 217-19
ferrets, 26, 27, 37
Ferry Swale campground, 179
festivals, 74, 95
“Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey, A” (Berry), 54, 315
“Field Guide to Western Birds, A” (Stegner), 273–74
Fill Lake Mead First project, 184
Fire and Ice (Stegner), 147
Fire on the Mountain (Abbey), 81
fires, 13, 234–37, 306, 316
benefits of, 236, 237
“Big Blowup” (1910), 235, 236
climate change’s role in, 43, 62, 235, 236
in Colorado, 2, 17, 33–34, 40, 42–43, 44, 45, 58, 234–35, 316
landscape scarred by, 13, 17, 234–35, 316
in summer of 2012, 1, 2, 17, 33–34, 40, 42, 43, 45, 61, 234–35, 236, 276
suppression of, 61, 235–36
Flagstaff, Ariz., 23, 198
Flagstaff Mountain, 40, 42, 45, 181
floods, flooding, 58, 62, 67, 75, 89, 91, 130, 174
Fool’s Progress, The (Abbey), 22, 71–72, 228, 265–67, 277
party scene in, 71–72
Foote, Mary Hallock, 275, 319
Foreman, Dave, 181, 182, 239, 240, 241, 316
Forest Service, U.S., 126, 235, 236
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