{"title":"Betsy Gaines Quammen","description":"BETSY GAINES QUAMMEN is a historian and conservationist. She received a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University in 2017, her dissertation focusing on Mormon settlement and public land conflicts. After college in Colorado, caretaking for a bed and breakfast in Mosier, Oregon, and serving breakfasts at a cafe in Kanab, Utah, Betsy has settled in Bozeman, Montana, where she now lives with her husband, writer David Quammen, three huge dogs, an overweight cat, and a pretty big python named Boots.","products":[{"product_id":"american-zion-cliven-bundy-god-and-public-lands-in-the-west-paperback","title":"American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gaines Quammen's voice is bright, engaging, and smart. She listens. She is fair. But she is not seduced by cowboy mythology. Her vision calls for an ecological wisdom that can govern our communities, both human and wild, with reverence and respect.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happens when members of an American religion--one built in the nineteenth century on personal prophecy and land proprietorship--assert possession over western federal lands, armed with guns and a certainty that God wants them to go to war? American Zion is the story of the ongoing feud between Mormon ranching family the Bundys, the federal government, and the American public. Historian Betsy Gaines Quammen examines the roots of the Bundys' cowboy confrontations, and how history has shaped an often-dangerous mindset which today feeds the militia movement and threatens public lands, wild species, and American heritage.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367746797791,"sku":"9781948814140","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/y7kxpgmAkB9781948814140.webp?v=1789113422"},{"product_id":"true-west-myth-and-mending-on-the-far-side-of-america-paperback","title":"True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTrue West\u003c\/i\u003e disentangles reality from centuries of myth and mystique.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e--HAMPTON SIDES, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBlood and Thunder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging people and building relationships at every stop. Misperceptions about land, politics, liberty, and self-determination threaten the well-being of people and communities across the country, and Gaines Quammen interrogates it all as she seeks to reconcile the anger and misunderstandings that continue to be fueled by the West's enduring myths and complex history. Whether sitting down with a militia member seeking to protect his rural Utah town from Antifa or talking with grassroots organizers working across ideological divides, Gaines Quammen brings to life connections and contradictions that shape our politics and our lives far beyond the West.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369761374431,"sku":"9781948814874","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/M5YSDFTv8A9781948814874.webp?v=1789146123"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/betsy-gaines-quammen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}