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    Bonanza of Greed

    Jun 03, 2019 3 minutes
    Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg

    THIS LAND: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West

    BY CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM

    Viking, 422 pp., $29

    THE TITLE OF Christopher Ketcham’s ferocious new book—This of course an allusion to the great Woody Guthrie song, which, depending on the version you sing, is either a song about geographical patriotism or a bitter attack on private property. “This land is your land, this land is my land,” and yet nowhere in Guthrie’s lyrics do you find the words “our land.” Ketcham’s subject is land—public land—and its despoliation. In the American West, it’s more lands. They belong to you and me.

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