<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Before there were Western states, there were public lands—over a billion acres irrevocably reserved for the people of the United States. The Sagebrush Rebels are the most recent in a series of covetous groups bent on “regaining” what was never theirs.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> The first settlers marked the borders of their lives with simple fences that grew ever more elaborate over the centuries</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The author walks us through literary Boston at its zenith. But Boston being what it is, we also come across the Revolution, ward politics, and the great fire.</span></p>
