OnEarth, January 1st, 2008
VANISHING AMERICA In Pursuit of Our Elusive Landscapes BY JAMES CONAWAY Shoemaker & Hoard, 275 pp., $24.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WAY UP NEAR THE FORESTED headwaters of the Boise River in Idaho, where the roads and the houses give out James Conaway finds a site where the Nez Perce Indians once pitched camp. Even the most rabid supporters of western expansion were forced to acknowledge that there was something special about the Nez Perce. Lewis and Clark found them both elegant and amiable; they were hospitable to those who came to Christianize them; they didn't fight with neighboring tri...
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