Bernard DeVoto – 1897-1955

DeVoto wrote in many genres—fiction, criticism, and journalism— but he is best known as a magisterial historian of the American West. DeVoto was not only immersed in the western past, but was deeply concerned about the region’s future, and his monthly column for Harper’s Magazine, “The Easy Chair,” served to make the nation’s public aware of the precious value of the western lands and the necessity for faithful stewardship of them.