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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.

Table of Contents
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Howdy; Theme from an Imaginary Western; At a Cemetery in Salt Lake City; The Doppler Effect; Big, Wonderful; 2. Roots; Finding Seedskadee; Roots; On Visiting Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Homestead; 3. Risk; Finale, Indian Summer; Money for Nothing; Crossing the Three Sisters; Dark Water, Bright Sky; On Dedicating a Statue of John Wesley Powell; 4. Boom and Bust; The Cycle of Snowfields; Boom and Bust, Part One; Emma; I. English Girl; II. Martin's Cove; III. The Burden of Interpretation; IV. Reaching a Settlement; Boom and Bust, Part Two: Economic Manic Depression; 5. Mountains; Lines Composed above Big Sandy Openings; Condensed from Aqueous Vapor in the Atmosphere; Seven Horseshoes; The Longest Day; The Glaciers Are Dying; 6. Children; Viva; Blood, Water, and Wine; Riverview; 7. Charismatic Megafauna; Memo: Town Deer; To the Bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; The Wild Horse Problem; Like a Thief in the Night; 8. Myth; Muy Frio; 9. Adios; Water's Edge; Tethered to Earth; Notes; Bibliography

Big Wonderful Notes from Wyoming

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      Publisher University Press of Colorado
      Published 11/20/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780870818462
      978-0870818462
      ISBN-10 0870818465
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Howdy; Theme from an Imaginary Western; At a Cemetery in Salt Lake City; The Doppler Effect; Big, Wonderful; 2. Roots; Finding Seedskadee; Roots; On Visiting Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Homestead; 3. Risk; Finale, Indian Summer; Money for Nothing; Crossing the Three Sisters; Dark Water, Bright Sky; On Dedicating a Statue of John Wesley Powell; 4. Boom and Bust; The Cycle of Snowfields; Boom and Bust, Part One; Emma; I. English Girl; II. Martin's Cove; III. The Burden of Interpretation; IV. Reaching a Settlement; Boom and Bust, Part Two: Economic Manic Depression; 5. Mountains; Lines Composed above Big Sandy Openings; Condensed from Aqueous Vapor in the Atmosphere; Seven Horseshoes; The Longest Day; The Glaciers Are Dying; 6. Children; Viva; Blood, Water, and Wine; Riverview; 7. Charismatic Megafauna; Memo: Town Deer; To the Bears of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; The Wild Horse Problem; Like a Thief in the Night; 8. Myth; Muy Frio; 9. Adios; Water's Edge; Tethered to Earth; Notes; Bibliography

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