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Chargement... One Man's Westpar David Lavender
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a classic western biography about mining, mountain climbing, ranching, and living in Colorado and Utah written by a rancher, historian, writer. Lavender http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/may/06/guardianobituaries.obituaries provides a first-hand account that deserves attention by anyone trying to understand the West. (lj) ( ) Lavender writes lovingly of growing up on a working cattle ranch near Telluride Colorado. He also recounts some of his first jobs as a young man in the mining industry. This is my favorite work of nonfiction by Lavender and easily (by its nature) his most personal. As a memoir it ranks with Doig's This House Of Sky. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers such as David Lavender remembered "not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the multitude of tiny things which in their sum make up the elemental poetry of rock and ice and snow." And as the nation exhausted its gold and silver veins, as law reached the boomtowns on the frontier, and as the era of the great cattle ranches and drives came to an end, Lavender felt compelled to document his experiences in rugged southwest Colorado to preserve this rapidly disappearing way of life. One Man's West is Lavender's ode to his days on the Continental Divide and the story of his experiences making a living in the not so wild but not yet tamed West. Like stories told around a campfire, One Man's West is captivating yet conversational, incredible yet realistic, and introduces some of the most charming characters in western literature. This new Bison Books edition features an introduction and afterword by the author's son that discuss other phases and facets of his father's remarkable life, as well as a tribute to the author by his grandson. It also includes nine new photographs from the Lavender family archives. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)978.8History and Geography North America Western U.S. ColoradoClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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