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- Mountain Blood
- Book
- 1986
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
summary
The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West. Will Baker’s tales range from Nebraska to Peru and tell of a boy’s first trout, a bar brawl over a woman, and the vise-like grip of gold over all of the Americas. They spring from an imagination shaped by wild, circuitous mealtime stories of prospectors and from the bitter history of a place where suburban ranch houses dot the vast sweep of land once hunted by the Lakotah.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-9
- The Winged Worm
- pp. 10-17
- The Beautician & the One-Legged Man
- pp. 18-48
- The Neardeath of Aunt Nellie
- pp. 49-58
- Letter to a Nebraska Housewife
- pp. 81-89
- Father White Mouse
- pp. 90-108
- Sourdoughs, Filibusters, & a One-Eared Mule
- pp. 109-174
- List of Illustrations
- p. 175
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820347837
Related ISBN(s)
9780820308197
MARC Record
OCLC
563736593
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No