Lasso the Wind, Timothy Egan
Lasso the Wind, Timothy Egan
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Lasso the Wind
Away to the New West

Author: Timothy Egan

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2017


Synopsis

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award"Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --Los Angeles Times"They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, cut it, dam it, drain it, nuke it, poison it, pave it, and subdivide it," writes Timothy Egan of the West; still, "this region's hold on the American character has never seemed stronger." In this colorful and revealing journey through the eleven states west of the 100th meridian, Egan, a third-generation westerner, evokes a lovely and troubled country where land is religion and the holy war between preservers and possessors never ends.Egan leads us on an unconventional, freewheeling tour: from America's oldest continuously inhabited community, the Ancoma Pueblo in New Mexico, to the high kitsch of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where London Bridge has been painstakingly rebuilt stone by stone; from the fragile beauty of Idaho's Bitterroot Range to the gross excess of Las Vegas, a city built as though in defiance of its arid environment. In a unique blend of travel writing, historical reflection, and passionate polemic, Egan has produced a moving study of the West: how it became what it is, and where it is going.

About Timothy Egan

TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of seven books, most recently Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, named Best of the Month by Amazon.com. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for nonfiction and was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington State Book Award winner, and a Book Sense Book of the Year Honor Book. He writes a weekly opinion column for the New York Times.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on August 22, 2015

For this 1998 book, Timothy Egan takes the reader to 14 places to tell the story of the 11 states in the Western continental U.S. (mostly ignoring the West Coast). I learned about things I'd previously known nothing about, such as: * Cattle and horses, although such a major part of the story of the W......more

Goodreads review by Gwyn on November 02, 2019

This is a well-written and though-provoking book that is challenging on multiple levels. Most importantly, it challenges the reader to think carefully about the West, what it is, what it should be, and where our ideas about both those things come from. This is exactly what Egan intended, but it is c......more