Wagon Days
Nonfiction, Travel, United States, West, Adventure & Literary Travel, Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | Lawrence Winkler | ISBN: | 9780991694174 |
| Publisher: | Bellatrix | Publication: | May 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lawrence Winkler |
| ISBN: | 9780991694174 |
| Publisher: | Bellatrix |
| Publication: | May 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The American West was a notion, not a nation. It was a process, not a place. The native animal and human life of the West was displaced, replaced, and exterminated- sixty million bison to make way for European bog animals, billions of passenger pigeons for nothing, and ninety percent of aboriginal native Americans, out of an original population of possibly a hundred million, by accident and design. Late in the summer of 2013, I set out to find the Old West, what it had been, and what had replaced it. The quest for my own wild panorama would turn wheels of fortune into a movable feast of Wagon Days. And if this don’t get your fire started, your wood’s wet.
The American West was a notion, not a nation. It was a process, not a place. The native animal and human life of the West was displaced, replaced, and exterminated- sixty million bison to make way for European bog animals, billions of passenger pigeons for nothing, and ninety percent of aboriginal native Americans, out of an original population of possibly a hundred million, by accident and design. Late in the summer of 2013, I set out to find the Old West, what it had been, and what had replaced it. The quest for my own wild panorama would turn wheels of fortune into a movable feast of Wagon Days. And if this don’t get your fire started, your wood’s wet.
