Red Hole in Time

Marshall, Muriel

ISBN 10: 0890963320 / ISBN 13: 9780890963326

Edité par Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1988

A propos de cet article

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 312 p. Contains: Unspecified. Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest. Audience: General/trade. Very good. light shelfwear, no ownership marks, first printing.

N° de réf. du vendeur Alibris.0025509

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Red Hole in Time
• Éditeur: Texas A&M University Press, College Station
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0890963320
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780890963326
• Reliure: Trade paperback
• Édition: First edition.

A propos de ce titre

Synopsis

Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this canyon hole the way gold nuggets get caught in the potholes of a stream. Like nuggets eddying against stone, they were shaped by the Canyon--rounded off, shattered, or tossed away, according to how they conformed or resisted. Indeed, treasure richer than gold settled into that hole in time; in the onrushing current of history the lifestyle--the Old West--settled and still survives there--in fact, in artifact, and in living memories.

The tale of the canyon is a tale of struggle, change, frontier friendship, and enmity that is part of the story of the West itself: Anglo settlement; conflict between cowman, nester, and sheep man; epidemics; hardships; loneliness. Many of its stories, though, are tantalizing episodes unique to this place, laced with oddity and tragedy.

Using as digging tools the camera, tape recorder, diaries, memoirs, and a hundred years of old newspapers, Marshall has mined more gold than the first prospectors ever suspected lay in that mysterious red hole.

À propos de l?auteur

Muriel Marshall is a freelance writer who lives in Delta, Colorado.