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Big wonderful : notes from Wyoming /

In this unconventional memoir, Kevin Holdsworth vividly portrays life in remote, unpredictable country and ruminates on the guts - or foolishness - it takes to put down roots and raise a family in a merciless environment. Growing up in Utah, Holdsworth couldn't wait to move away. Once ensconced...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holdsworth, Kevin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part One: Howdy""; ""Theme from an Imaginary Western""; ""At a Cemetary in Salt Lake City""; ""The Doppler Effect""; ""Big, Wonderful""; ""Part Two: Roots""; ""Finding Seedskadee""; ""Roots""; ""On Visitin Elinore Pruitt Stewarts Homestead""; ""Part Three: Risk""; ""Finale, Indian Summer""; ""Money for Nothing""; ""Crossing the Three Sisters""; ""Dark Water, Bright Sky""; ""On Dedicating a Statue of John Wesley Powell""; ""Part Four: Boom and Bust""; ""The Cycle of Snowfields""; ""Boom and Bust, Part One""; ""Emma""
  • ""Boom and Bust, Part Two""""Part Five: Mountains""; ""Lines Composed abouve Big Sandy Openings""; ""Condensed from Aqueous Vapor in the Atmosphere""; ""Seven Horseshoes""; ""The Longest Day""; ""The Glaciers are Dying""; ""Part Six: Children""; ""Viva""; ""Blood, Water, and Wine""; ""Riverview""; ""Part Seven: Charismatic Megafauna""; ""Memo: Town Deer""; ""To the Bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem""; ""The Wild Horse Problem""; ""Like a Thief in the Night""; ""Part Eight: Myth""; ""Muy Frio""; ""Part Nine: Adios""; ""Water's Edge""; ""Tethered to the Earth""; ""Notes""