Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town (Creating the North American Landscape)

Van Dyke, Professor Dix

ISBN 10: 0801856256 / ISBN 13: 9780801856259

Edité par The Johns Hopkins University Pre, 1997

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• Titre: Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town (Creating the North American Landscape)
• Éditeur: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801856256
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801856259
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Normal wear and tear

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Synopsis

When 22-year-old Dix Van Dyke arrived in Daggett, California, in 1901, the town was a wild and raucous frontier settlement, with bar rooms and brothels, silver mines and land swindles, cattle drives, and shootouts at the Bucket of Blood saloon. Dix, a ranch-boy with no formal education but whose father and uncle were writers, became the town's unofficial historian. Edited and introduced by the poet and nature writer Peter Wild, this is Dix Van Dyke's account of how the 20th century arrived in a California frontier town. Located a 100 miles outside Los Angeles and just east of Barstow in the Mojave Desert, Daggett attracted a rich assortment of settlers lured by the wealth of nearby silver mines of the promise of cheap farmland conjured up by dubious irrigation schemes. With wit, humour, and a writer's eye for the telling detail, Dix describes the delicate beauty of the desert and the human hopes that often ended in folly there.

À propos de l?auteur

Dix Van Dyke was the son of nature writer Theodore Van Dyke and nephew of John C. Van Dyke, author of 'The Desert', the first book to praise America's arid lands. Peter Wild is one of the foremost poets of the American West. Of his twenty volumes of poetry, 'Cochise' was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona.