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Ep. 141 - Nate Schweber - Public Lands Journalist
BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 141: Public Lands Journalist Nate Schweber
A flamboyant Western politician, yelling hatred for the federal government, accusing anyone who questioned him of being a "communist," secretly planning a takeover and selloff of 230 million acres of public land to his cronies. Sounds like today, yes? Well, it was 1947, and it almost worked. Montana-born, New York City-seasoned reporter and writer Nate Schweber uncovers the whole sordid, instructive history in his wild ride of a book, This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild, a…
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