Morning Comes to Elk Mountain: Dispatches from the Wichita by Gary Lantz

By Gary Lantz

equipped as a sequence of per month magazine entries, Morning involves Elk Mountain is Lantz’s reaction to 10 years of exploring the tough and unforeseen great thing about the Wichita Mountains natural world shelter. a mix of memoir, typical historical past, local American historical past, and geology, this publication is enriched through 20 colour images and a map to attract the pro customer in addition to the newcomer to the safe haven. The nationwide natural world safe haven that’s the point of interest of the publication used to be one of the first confirmed through President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped keep the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and as an alternative the tough but scenic quarter grew to become the nation’s first bison safe haven, demonstrated to maintain this American icon from slipping into extinction. at the present time the shelter hosts greater than 1000000 viewers a yr, such a lot of them coming to hike the paths, climb the rocks, photo bison and prairie canines, or just commune with a gorgeous, wild sector that continues to be a religious panorama for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians who name it home.

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