Tchudi, Stephen (Editor)
Nevada Humanities Committee
Physical Details: xii + 204 pp.; ill.
Language: English
Description Contents: Confessions of a small-caliber vivsectionist / Eric Bateman -- How the west was wired / Susanne Bentley -- “The genius of civilization”: The material culture of print technology in the nineteenth-century American west / Jen A. Huntley-Smith -- Energy, conservation, and modernity: The failure to electrify railroads in the American west / James C. Williams -- All over the road with John McPhee / Brenda Vicondoa -- Dust to dust / Ann Ronald -- Coffee break / Joel Boardman -- Science, technology, and the consequences of water development for irrigation of the American west / J.C. Guitjens -- Water and power / Kevin Hearle -- Rangelands in the silver state / Paul T. Tueller -- Physical graffiti: Mining legacies at American flat / Peter Goin and Elizabeth Raymond -- Ophir / Thimas Whitehead -- Remaking the wide-open town: Butte, Montana, at the end of the twentieth century / Brian Shovers -- Litany for a landscape / Ursula Carlson -- Singing cowboys on the moon: The exogeographic west / David Fenimore -- Cowboy manifesto / Erik Powell -- Western landscapes in Warner Bros. cartoons / Michael S. Green (from WorldCat) See:
Chapter Williams, James C. (1998) Energy, conservation, and modernity: The failure to electrify railroads in the American west. In: Western technological landscapes (p. 51).
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