Lasso the Wind : : Away to the New West
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Includes index.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Year Published: 1998
Description: 266 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780679781820 (softcover)
0375400249 (hardbk)
SUBJECTS
Travelers' writings.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- History, Local.