DeVoto’s WestSocial commentator and preeminent western historian Bernard DeVoto vigorously defended public lands in the West against commercial interests. By the time of his death in 1955, DeVoto had published criticism, history, and fiction. He had won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes. But his most passionate writingat once incisive and eloquentadvocated conservation of Americas prairies, rangeland, forests, mountains, canyons, and deserts. DeVotos West: