Aspects of the American West: Three Essays (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest) by Joe B. Frantz; Foreword-W. Eugene Hollon - 1976-06-01

Texas A&M University Press, 6/1/1976 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Good. 0.5984 8.5000 5.7008.

Hard Cover. Texas A&M University Press 1976. Water Stain on Edge. Price Clipped. Good Condition. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

Book looks almost unread except for some small notations & comments in pencil in the margins throughout, but not very many. Dust jacket has light to very light wear & no major damage.

Texas A&M University Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 5x0x8. Few historians know and love the American West better than Joe Frantz does, and few have written more critically about it. His addresses and articles, marked by both insight and charm, have brought him much acclaim, as have his books. The three thought-provoking essays in this volume are excellent examples of his work.The first essay, “Yellowstone National Park: Genesis of an Urban Solution,” was first delivered by Dr. Frantz as the Norman Furniss Lecture at Colorado State University in 1971 and was subsequently published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History. In it he portrays the Yellowstone experience as a “starting block” from which the nation has been “groping toward cooperating with our environment instead of forever and inflexibly demanding its unconditional surrender to our short-tempered and temporary… Read More

Colege Station: Texas a & M Univ. Press, 1976 hardcover; smaller 8vo. 82pp. no names or other markings. Fine in Fine d/j in jacket protector.

College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1976. First. hardcover. good/good. 82pp. 8vo, blue boards, d.w. soiled and with a small tear, spine of boards dampstained, preliminary pages with small dampstain in margin. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, (1976).<br/><br/>

College Station, Texas, U.S.A.: Texas A & M Univ Pr, 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover in price-clipped jacket..

Texas A & M University Press, College Station.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition, stated. Hardcover. 0890960232 . Three essays: 1. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: GENESIS OF AN URBAN SOLUTION, 1971. 2. WESTERN IMPACT ON THE NATION, 1969, and 3. THE AMERICAN WEST: CHILD OF FEDERAL SUBSIDY, 1963. 82 pages. Price clipped dust jacket and slight shelf worn on the back giving it near fine. Book is in fine condition. Number One Essays on the American West sponsored by the Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation. ; 5 3/4"-8 3/4"; 82 pages .

College Station, TX:: Texas A&M University Press, , (1976.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.). First printing. The first essay in on Yellowstone National Park, the second looks at the 'Western Impact on the Nation', and the third, one of Frantz's most controversial, is called 'The American West: Child of Federal Subsidy' and was originally presented in 1963. Foreword by W. Eugene Holton. The first book to be published in the series 'Essays on the American West.' sponsored by the Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation. 82 pp.