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Can I read Miles from nowhere : tales from America's contemporary frontier on EtoBox?
Miles from nowhere : tales from America's contemporary frontier by Duncan, Dayton is a travel available to read on EtoBox.
What is Miles from nowhere : tales from America's contemporary frontier about?
They will tell you the life they lead is different, perhaps not as different as in the old days of the frontier, but certainly unlike life in most of America in the later twentieth century. And they'll tell you the rest of the country doesn't understand them, and never consults them when decisions are made about what should happen to the land they occupy. They live in the contemporary American frontier. They are people like eighty-four-year-old Margaret Stafford, living without electricity or running water on land she homesteaded in eastern Montana, 21 miles from the nearest paved road and 43 miles from the nearest town. And Jerry McComb, a United Parcel Service driver in southwestern Texas whose daily delivery route covers an area larger than Connecticut and causes him to stop more often for stray cattle than for traffic lights. Or Alex Joseph, the polygamist mayor of Big Water, Utah, population 328, where one of his nine wives is also the town attorney; Audrey Ward, who ended up in remote Quemado, New Mexico, by answering her future husband's personal ad in a national magazine; and Mark Maryboy, a young Navajo Indian fighting on behalf of his people with ballots instead of bullet
Who reads Miles from nowhere : tales from America's contemporary frontier?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Duncan, Dayton
- Publisher
- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780803266278
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Fiction, Travel, History
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (118 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13