02088cam a2200301 4500 1163766647 TxAuBib 20110222120000.0 101118s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062005960 $29.99 0062005960 $29.99 (OCoLC)555654151 BTCTA BTCTA YDXCP UKM UPZ JRS BKX BUR YAM CDX VP@ BKL TxAuBib Brinkley, Douglas. The quiet world : saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960 / Douglas Brinkley. Saving Alaska's wilderness kingdom, 1879-1960. 1st ed. New York : Harper, 2011. x, 576 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-550) and index. Odyssey of the snowy owl -- Theodore Roosevelt's conservation doctrine -- The Pinchot-Ballinger feud -- Bull Moose crusade -- Charles Sheldon's fierce fight -- Our vanishing wildlife -- The Lake Clark pact -- Resurrection Bay of Rockwell Kent -- The new wilderness generation -- Warren G. Harding : backlash -- Bob Marshall and the gates of the Arctic -- Those amazing Muries -- Will the wolf survive? -- William O. Douglas and New Deal conservation -- Ansel Adams, Wonder Lake, and the lady bush pilots -- Pribilof seals, Walt Disney, and the arctic wolves of Lois Crisler -- The Arctic Range and Aldo Leopold -- The Sheenjek Expedition of 1956 -- Dharma wilderness -- Of hoboes, barefooters, and the open road -- Sea Otter Jones and Musk-Ox Matthiessen -- Rachel Carson's alarm -- Selling the Arctic Refuge -- Arctic forever. A tribute to Alaska's wilderness regions details key preservation activities, leading contributors, and historical events. 20110222. Nature conservation Alaska History. Environmental protection Alaska History. Conservationists Alaska History. TXKIP