The Angry West: A VulnerableLand and Its Future By Richard D. Lamm andMichael McCarthy Houghton Mifflin, 344 pp., $13.95 This book has a marvelous natural balance that is part political and historical; part philosophic, part poetic.
On a summer day, wind whips across the Piceance Basin, filling the sky with a dusty mist, and wildflowers dance on the prairie floor. A farmhouse sits against the mesa wall, its skin peeling in the sun, framed by cottonwoods that rooted here before man. Alfalfa fields ripple for miles, purple-green and lush, and the fragrance of new-mown hay hangs in the air like a rare perfume. The land, the sky, the streams are life, are home.
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