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<p><P>A moving and provocative meditation on the changing nature of life in the West.</p> <h3>Katherine Whittamore</h3> <p><P>This is a watercolor of a book, pleasing yet irksomely faint. The problem isn't the prose. Kittredge writes boldly: "We have taken the West for about all it has to give. We have lived like children, taking and taking for generations, and now that childhood is over." No, the flaw's in the format. Sixteen disparate magazine pieces have been threshed into three longish essays (plus a short prologue and epilogue), then baled into a book. They don't quite hold together. Not surprisingly, Kittredge can't really tell us Who Owns the West by ruminating upon Raymond Carver or the Dordogne. The question washes out. <P>But he keeps giving it a go, with minor success. Most appealingly, he recalls the family ranch in eastern Oregon where he lived from his "scab-handed wandering child" days until age 35. (Kittredge's life on the ranch was also the subject of his 1988 book <i>A Hole in the Sky</i>, a minor classic that is his best book to date.) But then the soft-focus tone shifts to the glare of eco-reality: "We did great damage to the valley," he writes, "as we pursued o

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Author

William Kittredge

Publisher

San Francisco: Mercury House

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781562790783

Category

travel

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities

Rating

3.91 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14