Winner of the High Plains Book Award Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America
“A brilliant rendering of what ''the open space of democracy'' must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion.” –Terry Tempest Williams
The untold and “energetic” history of the extraordinary couple who rescued national parks from McCarthyism—and inspired a future of conservation (Wall Street Journal)
In late-1940s America, few writers commanded attention like Bernard DeVoto. Alongside his brilliant wife and editor, Avis, DeVoto was a firebrand of American liberty, free speech, and perhaps our greatest national treasure: public lands. But when a corrupt band of lawmakers, led by Senator Pat McCarran, sought to quietly cede millions of acres of national parks and other western lands to logging, mining, and private industr
