I. Introduction -- II. Store the floods -- III. Woodman, spare that tree -- IV. Range wars and range conservation -- V. The public land question -- VI. Taming the nation's rivers -- VII. The conservation crusade -- VIII. Conflict over conservation policy -- IX. Organized conservation in decline -- X. The corps of engineers fights water conservation -- XI. Congress rejects coordinated development -- XII. The West against itself -- XIII. The conservation movement and the progressive tradition.