Marking the sparrow's fall : Wallace Stegner's American West / edited with an introduction by Page Stegner.

Author/creator Stegner, Wallace
Other author Stegner, Page.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : H. Holt, 1998.
Descriptionxix, 359 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Foreword: I sing of America -- HOME GROUND : Child of the far frontier -- The making of paths -- That Great Falls year -- At home in the fields of the Lord -- Xanadu by the Salt Flats -- The world's strangest sea -- Lake Powell -- Back roads river -- Back roads of the American West -- Why I like the West -- TESTIMONY : Wilderness letter -- It all began with conservation -- The best idea we ever had -- Qualified hommage to Thoreau -- Living on our principal -- Bernard DeVoto -- Conservation equals survival -- Now, if I ruled the world.. -- INHERITANCE : The twilight of self-reliance -- Living dry -- The Rocky Mountain West -- Land : America's history teacher -- GENESIS : Genesis.
General note"A John Macrae book."
LCCN 97049281
ISBN0805044647 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks F591 .S8235 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold