| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.2

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Book Review

Saving the Big Thicket: From Exploration to Preservation, 1685–2003. By James J. Corzine, Jr. Denton: University of North Texas Press in association with the Big Thicket Association, 2004. xii + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.

Dissertations make good books. By the nature of the task, the author must write in an unbiased manner. The work is liberally researched with a large number of references and, if a contemporary topic, numerous interviews. If the author is well equipped to write, the book makes interesting reading. All this is true of Saving the Big Thicket, by James Corzine. The book is based on a dissertation completed in 1976; the book's date is 2004. But in the piney woods of East Texas the story of the Big Thicket Biological Preserve is a continuing one. The final product was not a national park, which had been sought for several decades in the middle 1900s.

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