Frantz Joe B Foreword (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Few historians know and love the American West better than Joe Frantz does, and few have written more critically about it. His addresses and articles, marked by both insight and charm, have brought him much acclaim, as have his books. The three thought-provoking essays in this volume are excellent examples of his work.The first essay, ?Yellowstone National Park: Genesis of an Urban Solution,? was first delivered by Dr. Frantz as the Norman Furniss Lecture at Colorado State University in 1971 and was subsequently published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History. In it he portrays the Yellowstone experience as a ?starting block? from which the nation has been ?groping toward cooperating with our environment instead of forever and inflexibly demanding its unconditional surrender to our short-tempered and temporary needs and demands.? The force and meaning of this address have increased with every year that has passed since it was first delivered.?Western Impact on the Nation,? the second essay, was delivered at the banquet of the annual meeting of the Western History Association in Omaha in 1969 and was published in Western Historical Quarterly. The true impact of the West, Frantz writes, is that it has acted as ?a beacon to the world illuminating the belief that progress is accidental and miraculous, and unplanned.? Its message, he says, is ?the message of the old prospector always looking for one more stake, always dreaming of rich veins that never run out.?The final essay, ?The American West: Child of Federal Subsidy,? was delivered at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1963. As Frantz?s most controversial and widely quoted speech, it provoked a storm of criticism. Westerners, Frantz says, did indeed ?triumph over monumental obstacles that develop a man, that make him self-reliant, that give him understanding and patience, and that let him know that individual and collective success is possible.? However, he concludes, the Westerner has been subsidized from start to finish by a federal government ?which was sometimes benign, sometimes dictatorial, but which always, like a watching parent, was there..…

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Lengthy gift inscription on front paste-down. Clean, bright & tight copy with p/c dj protected in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good hardcover in dust jacket with clean pages.

Hardcover. xxiii, 386p. + [24]p. of plates, top edge of textblock lightly foxed, pencil notations on free rear endpaper, Inscribed and signed by Henderson on the free front endpaper, with an unrelated gift inscription below. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 82 pages; Minor rubbing and wear to the dust jacket with a small tape mended tear to the top edge. A little writting in blue pencil to the front free end paper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition. 8vo, 149 pp. Inscribed by the author. Spine slightly cocked, page edges tanned. Jacket sunned, rubbed, edgeworn with small chips at head and heel of spine panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Good++ DJ. National Geographic Society 1972 Fine/Good++ DJ Dark-orange cloth with gilded drawing on front and gilded lettering on spine. Photo and map illustrated end papers. Previous owner's sticker inside cover. tight bright color photo and drawing illustrated pages. Some rubbing and chipping to dust jacket with small mended tears. 212 pages. LARGE HEAVY ITEM 1.63 Pounds. Size: 10 1/4 x 7 x 3/4 inches. No Exp. …

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.