Lasso the wind : away to the New West
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New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 266 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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Canon City Public Library - NONFICTION | 978 EGA | On Shelf | |
Dolores Public Library - NONFICTION | HISTORY 978 EGAN | On Shelf | |
Fowler Public Library - NONFICTION | 978 Egan | On Shelf | |
Gilpin County Public Library - NONFICTION | 978 EGAN | On Shelf | |
Lamar Community College Library (C426.lc) - GENERAL | F595 .3 .E43 GOOD | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index.
Description
Lasso the Wind is a look at the eleven states "on the sunset side of the 100th meridian" that Egan regards as the true West. Fishing rod and notebook in hand, he travels by car and foot, horseback and raft, through a region struggling to find its future direction under both the ideological weight of the past and the commercial threats of the present. He visits the Sky City of Acoma, which may be the oldest continuously inhabited community in America, and then goes to an instant town on the Colorado River - Lake Havasu City, built around the transplanted London Bridge. He meets an outlaw cowboy in New Mexico, grazing his cattle on federal land. From Las Vegas, a sprawling, ever-expanding monument to gaudiness and glitz, to the relatively untouched wilds of Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains, Egan leads us through the world of industrialists, politicians, ranchers, and developers, back to the heart of the land itself to see the wealth and grandeur that have inspired the dreams of generations. Interweaving historical accounts with explorations of the contemporary landscape, Egan shows how and why the region came to its current state
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Egan, T. (1998). Lasso the wind: away to the New West (First edition.). Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. 1998. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Egan, Timothy. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West First edition., Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.
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