{"product_id":"first-and-wildest-the-gila-wilderness-at-100-9781948814553","title":"First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eFirst and Wildest\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant, impassioned, and timely tribute to its remarkable past and present.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e --MICHELLE NIJHUIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the summer of 1922, Aldo Leopold traveled on horseback\u003c\/b\u003e up into the headwaters of New Mexico's Gila River and proposed to his bosses at the Forest Service that 500,000 acres of that rough country be set aside as roadless wilderness. Thus was born America's first--the world's first--designated wilderness. A century later, writer-activists, including Indigenous voices, come together to celebrate this vast, rugged landscape, the Yellowstone of the Southwest. Contributors include Michael P. Berman, Philip Connors, Martha Schumann Cooper, Beto O'Rourke, Martin Heinrich, Pam Houston, Priyanka Kumar, Laura Paskus, Sharman Apt Russell, Jakob Sedig, Leeanna T. Torres, and JJ Amaworo Wilson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hightower Allen\u003c\/b\u003e is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, where she spent twenty-plus years editing award-winning features and writing columns and book reviews. A transplanted southerner turned westerner, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she edits books and articles about public lands, memoir, and adventure, and serves on the advisory board to Writers on the Range. She and her husband and daughter spend as much time as they can exploring the rivers and mountains of the West--while also making it back to Tennessee fairly frequently for ham biscuits. Her mind is blown by the rugged vastness of the Gila.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Torrey House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50718022828306,"sku":"9781948814553","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f86488d6-ab0f-4672-8490-68c89c8bfdec.jpg?v=1734632230","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/first-and-wildest-the-gila-wilderness-at-100-9781948814553","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}