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Lasso the Wind : Away to the New West by Timothy Egan [Egan, Timothy] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 bui

Who reads Lasso the Wind : Away to the New West?

Author

Timothy Egan [Egan, Timothy]

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679781820

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Travel, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (403 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14