LA 1203 Lecture : LA 1203 Final Lecture Notes
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50 questions from lecture portion (100 points) Ktaadn" in the maine woods- henry david thoreau. Joined in on a fight for the damn of echo park. The marks of human passage is about powell going down the colorado river. Critics only gave taylor credit for filling expectations of his mid 19th century readers, he only pleased the readers with second world. Valley of humiliation, great relief, gothic gallery found in mammoth cave. Compared vesuvius to a hawaiian volcano called kilauea. He thought vesuvius was insignificant ( children"s volcano or soup kettle ) Held easy chair with harper"s magazine and wrote about echo park. Involved with eco park in the 1950"s, 40 years after hetch hetchy. Picked up by reader"s digest story of echo park. Big battle, de voto and stegner involved, trying to build another dam in echo canyon, but this time the environment won. Won pulitzer prize in 1947 with western expansion across wide missouri.
