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The place of the Federal Government in the American West has not gone unremarked. Yet when Bernard DeVoto, the brilliant western historian, wrote of this country as "the plundered province," he was speaking as much of the Federal government's role as landlord as of the relationship between resource exploiters and the land. The Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy (seen here with one of its nuclear labs), the Park and Forest service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Bureau of Land Management are just a few of the interlopers. Whose land is it? Not an easy question, that.
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