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In 1886, Teresa Jordan's great-grandfather J.L. Jordan left Maryland for the West. It was on Wyoming's Iron Mountain that the Jordan ranch began and survived for nearly a hundred years. Riding the White Horse Home is Teresa Jordan's story of four generations of her family's devotion to the land, a devotion that required at once physical courage and psychic endurance. She celebrates the strength and character of the women of her family - her mother, grandmother, and great-aunts; the men - her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather; and the ranch hands - the hay crew, cooks, and cowboys. With reverence and grace, Teresa Jordan uses the history of her family to mirror the demise of a quintessential American way of life. This is not only Teresa Jordan's family history, it is every Western family's story: it is the story of the American West. Teresa Jordan writes of her family and of finding her place within its history with warmth, sincerity, and pride. It is only after she leaves Wyoming that she begins to understand the women of her history - some who were shoehorned into the only lives they could imagine, others who found ways to create the lives they wanted - and to discover where she belongs. Teresa Jordan's essays in Riding the White Horse Home are eloquent homage to her history and to ours as well.… (plus d'informations)
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Very interesting book, exploring family relationships amid the changing West, the myths that our nation has about cowboys and the reality of life on a ranch. Explores her personal knowledge of the ranch hands who worked for her family, her grandfather and aunt, and the hard work put in by her parents to keep the ranch afloat. This is a much more approachable book to the history of the American West than Dakota by K Norris, which I am concurrently reading, as it uses stories of real people rather than a cerebral recitation of change and abandoned farms. Both books were published in 1993, and I get the impression (since neither referenced the other, yet both authors were well read) that they were unaware of the contemporary work. Jordan's final chapter explores how the family stories we are brought up with affect the possibilities we each feel we have in our own lives. By exploring and verbalizing her grandmother's life choices, she is able to make clear choices in her own. ( )
Teresa Jordan writes about ranch life and ranch people with a fierce love that shines with every word and illuminates the deep well of her loss when the Wyoming land left her family's hands...you feel the grit of dust in your eyes...the murmur of women kneading bread in the kitchen...the prose throughout is as tough as it is sentimental, mincing no words and acknowledging the warts along with the joy.
...a story of people,...Jordan's clear voice, as fresh as the endless Wyoming wind, carries the rich scent of life lived to the fullest despite all the hardships...a joy to read and reread. Full of humor and compassion, sorrow and pain, anecdotes, diary entries and descriptions...
In clear, plain prose, Jordan describes her life in a Wyoming cattle-ranching community...The quality of the questions she asks, and the intelligence and learning and open heart she brings to them, make Riding the White Horse Home brisk and enjoyable.
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On the prairies there appeared the Phantom Horse of the West, the Ghostly Horse of the Plains, the Vision Horse of the Lakota Nation, the Rainbow Horse of the Navajo, the Iron Horse of the railroad companies, the Great White Horse Silver of the Lone Ranger, the White Steed of the Prairie. In one thousand places and in one thousand guises the White Steed has been seen. He has been reported on the Brazos River in Texas and in the High Sierras of California. For nearly a century he has ranged over the prairies and the mountains of the West as an apparition. Hundreds of stories about him have appeared in magazines and books. But no one has ever captured him. No one ever will. It is no more possible to capture him than it is for us to recapture our lost innocence. --Stan Steiner "Dark and Dashing Horsemen", 1981
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For my family by blood The Jordans, Steeles, and Lannens And my family by landscape The People of Iron Mountain
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As a young child, I used to walk the blue hogback ridges near my family's ranch in the Iron Mountain country of southeastern Wyoming with my great-grandmother, looking for fossils and arrowheads.
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...that's sort of how the land is, in a rural life--generous but persnickety, too, not wanting to give you everything you ask for lest you get the big head or forget who's really in control (p 201)
The stories that had shaped me informed me that I could have personal accomplishment or a happy marriage--I could not have both...I didn't have a story that told me I could be visible and not end up alone. (p 194-195)
My great-aunt Marie and my great-grandmother were women who had learned to see...These women make me train my own eye. These women make me write. (p17-18)
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But perhaps that was just the image my mother and I, so many years before, had wanted to avoid--the wedding, and even the marriage, as something separate from a larger sense of life.
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In 1886, Teresa Jordan's great-grandfather J.L. Jordan left Maryland for the West. It was on Wyoming's Iron Mountain that the Jordan ranch began and survived for nearly a hundred years. Riding the White Horse Home is Teresa Jordan's story of four generations of her family's devotion to the land, a devotion that required at once physical courage and psychic endurance. She celebrates the strength and character of the women of her family - her mother, grandmother, and great-aunts; the men - her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather; and the ranch hands - the hay crew, cooks, and cowboys. With reverence and grace, Teresa Jordan uses the history of her family to mirror the demise of a quintessential American way of life. This is not only Teresa Jordan's family history, it is every Western family's story: it is the story of the American West. Teresa Jordan writes of her family and of finding her place within its history with warmth, sincerity, and pride. It is only after she leaves Wyoming that she begins to understand the women of her history - some who were shoehorned into the only lives they could imagine, others who found ways to create the lives they wanted - and to discover where she belongs. Teresa Jordan's essays in Riding the White Horse Home are eloquent homage to her history and to ours as well.
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Jordan's final chapter explores how the family stories we are brought up with affect the possibilities we each feel we have in our own lives. By exploring and verbalizing her grandmother's life choices, she is able to make clear choices in her own. (