Devil`s Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story 9780806143682

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Автор: Rea Tom
Название: Devil`s Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story
ISBN: 9780806143682
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Классификация:

Региональная и национальная история

История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Другие нехристианские религии

Путешествия и отдых

Путеводители по путешествиям и праздникам

ISBN-10: 0806143681
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 07.03.2013
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece
Размер: 229 x 152 x 20
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Owning the land, owning the story
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: People who own the land can own the stories-at least for a time Devils Gate-the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming-a remote place including Devils Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail-to show how ownership of a place can translate into owning its story. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Devils Gate is the center of a landscape that threatens to shrink any inhabitants to insignificance except for one thing: ownership of the land and the stories they choose to tell about it. The static serenity of the once heavily traveled region masks a history of conflict. Tom Sun, an early rancher, played a role here in the lynching of the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming. The lynching was dismissed as swift frontier justice in the wake of cattle theft, but Rea finds more complicated motives that involve land and water rights. The Sun name was linked with the land for generations. In the 1990s, the Mormon Church purchased part of the Sun ranch to memorialize Martins Cove as the site of handcart pioneers who froze to death in the valley in 1856. The treeless, arid country around Devils Gate seems too immense for ownership. But stories run with the land. People who own the land can own the stories, at least for a time. Tom Rea is the author of Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegies Dinosaur, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He lives with his family in Casper, Wyoming. A tale that should entertain, inspire, and trouble anyone who loves the American West.-Will Bagley, author of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

Devil`s Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story, Rea Tom