No Place Like Home scrutinizes the contemporary West, where subdivisions consume family ranches and historic towns are evolving into mean, congestedcities. Linda Hasselstrom offers a report from the front, where nature and human aspirations are often at odds and the concepts of community and mutual
No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life
โ Scribed by Linda M. Hasselstrom
- Publisher
- University of Nevada Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 229
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Flap
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A '54 Chevy Named Beulah
Selling the Ranch
Dear John
The School Bus Driver
Laughter in the Alley
Tomato Cages Are Metaphors
A Rocket Launcher in the Closet
The Beauty of Responsibility
Watching for Grizzlies Anyway
He Pinched the Burning End
Shoveling Snow in the Dark
Stalking Coffee in Sitka
Recycling Freedom
Tattoos and a Thong
Learning the Names of Cows
How to Live at the Dump
It Doesn't Just Happen
Making Pottery out of Sewage
Pray for Me I Drive Highway 79
The Stolen Canoe Mystery
Playing Pool with the Cat Men
Sounding the Writing Mudhole
Investigating the Heron Murders
Who's Driving the Subdivision
Overlooking the Antelope Ridge
Epilogue: Waiting for the Storm
Additional Resources
Back Flap
Back Cover
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<p><span>In </span><span>No Place Like Home</span><span>, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into mean, congested cities. Her scrutiny, like her life, moves back an