Author: | Will Baker, Annie Dillard | ISBN: | 9780820347837 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press | Publication: | September 15, 2014 |
Imprint: | University of Georgia Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Will Baker, Annie Dillard |
ISBN: | 9780820347837 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
Publication: | September 15, 2014 |
Imprint: | University of Georgia Press |
Language: | English |
The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West. Will Baker’s tales range from Nebraska to Peru and tell of a boy’s first trout, a bar brawl over a woman, and the vise-like grip of gold over all of the Americas. They spring from an imagination shaped by wild, circuitous mealtime stories of prospectors and from the bitter history of a place where suburban ranch houses dot the vast sweep of land once hunted by the Lakotah.
The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West. Will Baker’s tales range from Nebraska to Peru and tell of a boy’s first trout, a bar brawl over a woman, and the vise-like grip of gold over all of the Americas. They spring from an imagination shaped by wild, circuitous mealtime stories of prospectors and from the bitter history of a place where suburban ranch houses dot the vast sweep of land once hunted by the Lakotah.