Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American WestMacmillan, 1998 - 359 Seiten Marking the Sparrow's Fall is Wallace Stegner's biggest collection and the first since his death. His son, Page, has selected fifteen essays that have never before been published in any book and placed them alongside Wallace Stegner's most powerful pieces in the book's three nonfiction parts: Home Ground (memory), Testimony (defense of the earth), and Inheritance (history). The fourth section of the book is devoted to a magnificent little-known novella, "Genesis". As Page Stegner writes of the collection, "It is as complete and comprehensive a statement as we are ever likely to have about what it means to be a westerner, about what it means to know ourselves as 'a part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.'" |
Inhalt
Preface | xv |
HOME GROUND | 1 |
Child of the Far Frontier | 5 |
The Making of Paths | 11 |
That Great Falls Year | 16 |
At Home in the Fields of the Lord | 29 |
Xanadu by the Salt Flats | 38 |
The Worlds Strangest Sea | 46 |
The Best Idea We Ever Had | 135 |
Qualified Homage to Thoreau | 143 |
Living on Our Principal | 149 |
Bernard DeVoto | 161 |
Conservation Equals Survival | 174 |
Now if I Ruled the World | 182 |
INHERITANCE | 185 |
Editors Note | 187 |
Lake Powell | 57 |
Back Roads River | 68 |
Back Roads of the American West | 82 |
Why I Like the West | 96 |
TESTIMONY | 107 |
Editors Note | 109 |
Wilderness Letter | 111 |
It All Began with Conservation | 121 |
The Twilight of SelfReliance | 189 |
Living Dry | 213 |
The Rocky Mountain West | 230 |
Americas History Teacher | 260 |
Editors Note | 279 |
Genesis | 281 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Marking the Sparrow's Fall: Wallace Stegner's American West Wallace Earle Stegner,Page Stegner Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1998 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aldo Leopold American areas aridity Bernard DeVoto blanket boat Buck camp cattle civilization cliffs cold Colorado coulee cows Cypress Hills desert DeVoto earth edge environmental Escalante eyes face federal feel feet felt forests frontier Glen Canyon grazing half hands head herd homestead horse hundred Indians irrigation Jesse John Wesley Powell Lake Powell land ethic Little Horn lived look Mark Twain miles Miss Temby Montana monuments Mormon mouth moved National Park Navajo Nevada never night Panguingue plains pony Powell prairie public domain public lands pulled Ray Henry recreation reserves river road rock Rocky Mountain rope Rusty Sagebrush Sagebrush Rebellion Salt Lake City Saltair San Juan Saskatchewan Sierra Club Slip smell snow Spurlock tent thing Thoreau tion tourists town trail turned Utah Valley wagon walk watched West western wild wilderness wildlife wind