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"First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity. Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel. In a new final chapter deBuys examines ongoing transformations in the mountains' natural systems--including, most notably, developments related to wildfires--with significant implications for both the land and the people who depend on it. As the climate absorbs the effects of an industrial society, deBuys argues, we can no longer expect the environmental future to be a reiteration of the environmental past"--… (plus d'informations)
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INTRODUCTION To the east of the Villa, about one league distant, there is a chain of very high mountains which extends from south to north so far that its limits are unknown. --José de Urrutia, 1776
CHAPTER 1 To say "beyond the mountains" and to mean it, to mean, simply, beyond everything for which the mountain stands, of which it signifies the being. --N. Scott Momaday
CHAPTER 2 There is a spirit of energy in mountains, and they impart it to all who approach them. --Francis Parkman
CHAPTER 3 It is pitiful to view this immense area and the many ignorant people who inhabit those vast regions, all without knowledge of the Blood of Christ or of His Holy Faith. --Gaspar Perez de Villagrá, 1610
CHAPTER 4 Taking by the hand the said settlers and going over the tract they plucked grass, cast stones, and shouted, "Long live the King!" and I placed them in possession in common, quietly and peaceably without prejudice to third parties. --Juan José Lovato, alcalde and war captain, on the founding of Las Truchas, April 24, 1754
CHAPTER 5 On the side of Jicarita Peak there are caverns similar to the Carlsbad Caverns, but these caverns have not been fully explored. It is only known for sure that some shepherds have penetrated into them for about a mile, and they say they found stalactites within. --Simeon Tejada, NM WPA Writers' Project, 1939
CHAPTER 6 "Oh, we are approaching the suburbs!" thought I, on perceiving the cornfields, and what I supposed to be brick-kilns scattered in every direction. These and other observations of the same nature becoming audible, a friend at my elbow said, "It is true those are heaps of unburnt bricks, nevertheless they are houses -- this is the city of Santa Fe." --Josiah Gregg, 1831
CHAPTER 7 Do not find it strange if there has been no manifestation of joy and enthusiasm in seeing this city occupied by your military forces. To us the power of the Mexican republic is dead. No matter what her condition, she was our mother. What child will not shed abundant tears at the tomb of his parents? --Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, acting governor, at the surrender of Santa Fe, 1846
CHAPTER 8 Adios, friends, for the last time You have seen me wander round Now lay me in my true home In my coffin in the ground. --"Adiós al Mundo", a Penitente hymn
CHAPTER 9 Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in all their glory. --Matthew 4:8
CHAPTER 10 That hermit . . . he sure had lots of gold. He hid it all away when he left, and it has never been found. There's sure gold there but I've not found it yet. I've got colors, though." --George Beatty
CHAPTER 11 To a great extent, the redemption of all these lands will require extensive and comprehensive plans, for the execution of which aggregated capital or cooperative labor will be necessary. --John Wesley Powell
CHAPTER 12 I have just been offered $10,000 profit on that Grant which I bought the other day. I refused. You see I wanted this pretty bad, and there are now four other fellows that seem to want it pretty bad also. I never had anything that I wouldn't sell, so they may induce me to part with it. This is confidential. --Frank Bond to a business associate, February 20, 1903
CHAPTER 13 Mountain villages: under the piled-up snow the sound of water. --Shiki
CHAPTER 14 Don't get excited. You know lots of times the only difference between a good sheepherder and a bad one is how much range he can steal. --Frank Bond
CHAPTER 15 I hand you herewith enclosed copy of letter addressed from Willis, New Mexico, and dated January 18th, and signed Dr. Wm. Sparks, in which you will find this term "low down white livered liar," referring to myself, and further along in the letter the term "dirty bastards," referring to all people he had seen from Kentucky, except Wilhoit, who was my predecessor in office. --R. C. McClure, supervisor of the Pecos River Forest Reserve, and a Kentuckian, to the postmaster general, 1901
CHAPTER 16 Most of all I beseech you to sense the urgency of the situation in northern New Mexico. --William Hurst, regional forester, 1969
CHAPTER 17 In the long run we shall learn that there is no such thing as forestry, no such thing as game management. The only reality is an intelligent respect for, and adjustment to, the inherent tendency of land to produce life. --Aldo Leopold
CHAPTER 18 If these mountains die, where will our imaginations wander? . . . And if the long-time people of this wonderful country are carelessly squandered by Progress, who will guide us to a better world? --John Nichols
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to my mother who especially appreciates a good book and to my father who especially appreciates a day in the good outdoors
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The Rocky Mountains, spine of the continent, give birth to the Rio Grande in southern Colorado and fork to either side.
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The possibility exists that the mountains of the future will be a whole new world, launched on a novel evolutionary trajectory.
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"First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity. Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel. In a new final chapter deBuys examines ongoing transformations in the mountains' natural systems--including, most notably, developments related to wildfires--with significant implications for both the land and the people who depend on it. As the climate absorbs the effects of an industrial society, deBuys argues, we can no longer expect the environmental future to be a reiteration of the environmental past"--
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