“ One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of th… Bernard DeVoto
“ Their era was ending when Jim Clyman got to Independence in ’44 and found Bill Sublette, who had first taken wagons up the Platte Valley in 1830, now taking invalids to Brown’s Hole for a summer’s out… Bernard DeVoto
“ The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains. Bernard DeVoto
“ California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people. Bernard DeVoto
