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Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah's Canyon Country. By Greg Gordon. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003. xii + 213 pp. Charts, tables, bibliography. $39.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)
      The San Rafael Swell in south-central Utah was characterized in the WPA's Utah: A Guide to the State (New York, 1941) as a "desert wasteland" that was "only partially explored, inadequately mapped, and so barren that few have penetrated it" (p. 345). South of the San Rafael Swell is the Waterpocket Fold, the most spectacular part of which has been set aside as Capitol Reef National Park. Paved roads have been built into this area since 1940, but it remains one of the more isolated regions of the Colorado Plateau. This is the setting for Landscape of Desire. . . .
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