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• catalog abstract "The Pacific Northwest has always evoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelogue vistas. More recently, such images have been marred by much-publicized controversies pitting spotted owls and salmon against logging interests and power companies. But, as Robert Bunting shows, such conflicts are only the most recent indications of the competition for dominion in the Douglas-fir region running from southern Canada to northern California. Bunting chronicles this struggle from the first sustained contact between Native American and Euroamerican cultures to 1900, when Frederick Weyerhaeuser's purchase of 900,000 acres of Washington forest completed one of the largest land deals in U.S. history. He depicts an evolving Eden that was never as environmentally pristine nor as viciously exploited as some have suggested, but which reflected the complex relations created by competing cultures amid the illusion of inexhaustible abundance. Bunting describes in detail this distinctive bioregion and reveals how various groups of people have viewed it, struggled to possess it, and been shaped by it. His study illuminates the contrasting ways in which Indians and non-Indians interacted with the environment and with each other; the underlying myths that governed such differences; the actual environmental attitudes of western settlers rather than eastern intellectuals; the inextricable links between environmental and human exploitation, as well as between ecological and cultural stability; and the curiously divergent paths of development taken by the two raincoast states, Washington and Oregon.".
• catalog contributor b10233446.
• catalog coverage "Northwest, Pacific Environmental conditions.".
• catalog coverage "Northwest, Pacific History.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "1. The Native American Landscape -- 2. Fur Trade Society -- 3. Nature's Society -- 4. Settler Society and Native Americans -- 5. Settlement -- 6. Settler Society -- 7. Living on the Land -- 8. Settler Society and the Forests -- 9. Transforming the Forests.".
• catalog description "Bunting describes in detail this distinctive bioregion and reveals how various groups of people have viewed it, struggled to possess it, and been shaped by it. His study illuminates the contrasting ways in which Indians and non-Indians interacted with the environment and with each other; the underlying myths that governed such differences; the actual environmental attitudes of western settlers rather than eastern intellectuals; the inextricable links between environmental and human exploitation, as well as between ecological and cultural stability; and the curiously divergent paths of development taken by the two raincoast states, Washington and Oregon.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-221) and index.".
• catalog description "The Pacific Northwest has always evoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelogue vistas. More recently, such images have been marred by much-publicized controversies pitting spotted owls and salmon against logging interests and power companies. But, as Robert Bunting shows, such conflicts are only the most recent indications of the competition for dominion in the Douglas-fir region running from southern Canada to northern California. Bunting chronicles this struggle from the first sustained contact between Native American and Euroamerican cultures to 1900, when Frederick Weyerhaeuser's purchase of 900,000 acres of Washington forest completed one of the largest land deals in U.S. history. He depicts an evolving Eden that was never as environmentally pristine nor as viciously exploited as some have suggested, but which reflected the complex relations created by competing cultures amid the illusion of inexhaustible abundance.".
• catalog extent "x, 236 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Pacific raincoast.".
• catalog identifier "0700608052 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Pacific raincoast.".
• catalog isPartOf "Development of western resources".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
• catalog relation "Pacific raincoast.".
• catalog spatial "Northwest, Pacific Environmental conditions.".
• catalog spatial "Northwest, Pacific History.".
• catalog spatial "Northwest, Pacific".
• catalog spatial "Northwest, Pacific.".
• catalog subject "333.7/09795 20".
• catalog subject "GF504.N87 B86 1997".
• catalog subject "Human ecology Northwest, Pacific History.".
• catalog subject "Nature Effect of human beings on Northwest, Pacific.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Native American Landscape -- 2. Fur Trade Society -- 3. Nature's Society -- 4. Settler Society and Native Americans -- 5. Settlement -- 6. Settler Society -- 7. Living on the Land -- 8. Settler Society and the Forests -- 9. Transforming the Forests.".
• catalog title "The Pacific raincoast : environment and culture in an American Eden, 1778-1900 / Robert Bunting.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".