All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West

In Mirror of America: Literary Encounters with the National Parks (National Park Foundation, 1989), the editor, David Harmon, notes in the introduction to the chapter about Wallace Stegner: No one could have foreseen that the most virulent conservation battle of the 1950s-indeed, since Hetch Hetchy forty years before-would be fought over the fate of remote canyons in an obscure national monument. [...]1950, few people had heard of Dinosaur National Monument, let alone the plans of the Bureau of Reclamation to build a dam at Echo Park (the junction of the Green and Yampa rivers) in the Colorado portion of Dinosaur...