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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803267541
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Wyoming cowboys, ranchers, waitresses and bartenders along with Japanese-Americans interned at Heart Mountain tell their life stories during and after World War II.
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Wyoming cowboys, ranchers, waitresses and bartenders along with Japanese-Americans interned at Heart Mountain tell their life stories during and after World War II.
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
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ISBN: 9780439221993
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For one year, thirteen-year-old Timmy records in her journal the changes she sees in the natural world and her family's activities on their Wyoming ranch as they fight to save it from financial ruin.
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504042867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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A “dazzling first novel” about Japanese Americans and their Wyoming neighbors in the era of WWII internment camps (Chicago Tribune). A renowned chronicler of life in the West, Gretel Ehrlich turns her talents to a moment in history when American citizens were set against each other, offering “a novel full of immense poetic feeling for the internal lives of its varied characters and the sublime high plains landscape that is its backdrop” (The New York Times Book Review). This is the story of Kai, a graduate student reunited with his old-fashioned parents in the most painful way possible; Mariko, a gifted artist; Mariko’s husband, a political dissident; and her aging grandfather, a Noh mask carver from Kyoto. It is also the story of McKay, who runs his family farm outside the nearby town; Pinkey, an alcoholic cowboy; and Madeleine, whose soldier husband is missing in the Pacific. Most of all, Heart Mountain is about what happens when these two groups collide. Politics, loyalty, history, love—soon the bedrocks of society will seem as transient and fleeting as life itself. Set at the real-life Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, this powerful novel paints “a sweeping, yet finely shaded portrait of a real West unfolding in historical time” (The Christian Science Monitor).
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426205740
Category : Arctic peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Paints human-caused climate change as a mirror of the culture abuse first people have been suffering for 250 years.
Author: Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504042883
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Author: Alix Kates Shulman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865476974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman left a city life dense with political activism, family, and literary community, and went to stay alone in a small cabin on an island off the Maine coast.
Author: Michael A. Lerner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.
Author: William Soppitt
Publisher: William Soppitt
ISBN: 151464343X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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His greatest allies are his forgotten memories. Visions of long-lost ancestors, of places, experiences, abilities and loss, lead Richard into a life he never knew he had. The mysterious people of Atlatier, who long to leave the confines of their island, shadow an ancestral line destined for a single purpose. Fighting for the right of the human race to survive is just the beginning. Death under the Vermilion Cloud may be a blessing.
