It is also the place where Billy the Kid grew up the son of an Irish immigrant buried there. The cattle have over grazed the land and the timber industry has devastated the forest through clear cutting. Egan is something of a gonzo journalist, taking on the vast subject of the American West and finding in it cause for both wonder and humor. Una impresionante e imaginativa fábula moral acerca de la naturaleza de la violencia y la ... Once again, Tim Egan regales the reader with stories of these places with humor and history. Especially upon the present day situational copy- what he omits too is as much a "window", as much as what he opines and includes. He goes back a second time when the crowds are gone and says, “I saw more than I had seen before, the rainbow outline of color, and if I had really tried hard I could have seen a face. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Egan marvels at the growing Latino population and the racism they must endure. When given the question, “who is your favorite author,” for years my answers have been Doris Kearns Goodwin for nonfiction and Isabel Allende for fiction. My disclaimer is that I like Timothy Egan's writing quite a bit, so reading this book was not an issue at all. A sometimes arch, sometimes curmudgeonly, but always revealing tour of the modern Mountain West. Spoiler alert, it's pretty depressing at times. You drive, you stop to camp, you fall in love, and then you decide to stay. While written in 1998, the themes keep repeating themselves today. Despite repeatedly demanding the reader to challenge his or her views and assumptions of the West, Egan never once challenges himself to do the same.I don't often read nonfiction books that make me laugh out loud, but this one did. I turn to the two of their writing when I am in need of a comfort read, so the question “who is your favorite author,” has been a no brainer, until this year. . All negative "facts" re water and ranching especially highlighted, of course. In the nonfiction book club in 2019 I have read two books by gifted storyteller Timothy Egan. Lewis and Clark had survived there, only due to help from the Nez Perce, an Indian tribe who fed them when they were starving. I wonder if Egan has been making too many trips to The New York Times corporate office to pitch stories to his editor. Egan remains in New Mexico and rides a horse and admires the overwhelming beauty of the Grand Canyon, which Teddy Roosevelt had the wisdom to declare a national monument. His Catholic heart remains hopeful, as he marvels at a 90 foot Our Lady of the Rockies statue overlooking the valley, hoping for a miracle.

Any westerner should read and understand the issues conveyed.a thoroughly depressing book about the settling of the West. I read three chapters (the ones about two places I've lived, actually), and though I don't agree with a lot of what he writes, the topic (the "new" west) has provoked a lot of conversations in my home and opened my mind to yet another (prevailing) perspective on land management in the west. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West - Kindle edition by Egan, Timothy. Because it's like reading the WEST of today through the eyes and language of a traveling Howard Zinn.This is a well-written and though-provoking book that is challenging on multiple levels. OK then a well-written story explains why the book went fast. Awed by the Grand Teton; or, “big tit,” his words and one of the seven dirty ones which made George Carlin famous.

This is also the region I was the least familiar with, except for the Gold rush, the oil book and of course the Donner party. LASSO THE WIND AWAY TO THE NEW WEST. This book is more of an exploration of Wallace Stegner meets the people who screwed Sherman Alexie's people.......hard scrabble, "white westerners," claiming cultural authority over the lands taken from native Americans, keeping away from immigrant Americans, and charting negative environmental impacts in the name of making a buck by creating communities in places where communities should not naturally belong (Phoenix...Los Angeles.....etc...).

The tribe was later vanquished by white settlers as treaties were broken; and so it goes. Members: Reviews: Popularity: Average rating: Mentions: 183: 1: 105,349 (4.3) 16: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award "Sprawling in scope. This is also the region I was the least familiar with, except for the Gold rush, the oil book and of course the Donner party.

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