Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: DeVoto's West -- Footnote on the West -- Fossil Remnants of the Frontier -- The West: A Plundered Province -- The Anxious West -- The High Country -- Part II: The Western Land Grab, 1940s -- The West Against Itself -- The Western Land Grab -- U.S. Forest Service and the Western Land Grab -- Sacred Cows and Public Lands -- Statesmen on the Lam -- Part III: Desert, Water, and the West -- The West -- Flood in the Desert -- Our Hundred Year Plan -- And Fractions Drive Me Mad -- Part IV: Protection of the National Parks -- Intramural Giveaway -- Let's Close the National Parks -- Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks? -- National Park Service -- The Western Land Grab, 1950s -- One-Way Partnership Derailed -- Conservation: Down and on the Way Out -- An Old Steal Refurbished -- Two-Gun Desmond Is Back -- A Bibliography of DeVoto's West -- Index.