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    Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
    Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
    Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
    Audiobook11 hours

    Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West

    Written by Timothy Egan

    Narrated by John McLain

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

    Winner 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781531832377
    Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West
    Author

    Timothy Egan

    TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of eight other books, most recently The Immortal Irishman, a New York Times bestseller. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for nonfiction. His account of photographer Edward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, won the Carnegie Medal for nonfiction. He writes a biweekly opinion column for the New York Times.

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      Angrier than I thought it would be, and rightly so. He write about human beings, which keeps the book from sounding shrill. Read this because I liked The Good Rain, and I was not disappointed. Very fine writer.