Morning Comes to Elk Mountain
Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
978-1-57441-539-1 Paperback
6 x 9 x 0 in
272 pp. 15 b&w photos. 20 color photos
Pub Date: 09/04/2013
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The national wildlife refuge that’s the focus of the book was among the first established by President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped save the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and instead the harsh yet scenic area became the nation’s first bison refuge, established to keep this American icon from slipping into extinction.
Today the refuge hosts more than a million visitors a year, most of them coming to hike the trails, climb the rocks, photograph bison and prairie dogs, or simply commune with a beautiful, wild area that remains a spiritual landscape for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians who call it home.
Southwestern Nature Writing Series
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Published by University of North Texas Press